Conrack

1974 · Directed by Martin Ritt · 106 min · drama film, white savior film

★ 6.7/10 · 42 ratings on TMDB

A young, white school teacher is assigned to Yamacraw Island, an isolated fishing community off the coast of South Carolina, populated mostly by poor black families. He finds that the basically illiterate, neglected children there know so little of the world outside their island.