Teacher Guide
Learning goals, teaching notes, and answer keys.
View Teacher NotesPaper & online answer keysI Am Eleven Movie Guide
Choose the format that fits your classroom, then explore the film through focused questions and evidence.
About the Film
Children discuss daily life, concerns, and hopes across varied settings. Compare individual perspectives while examining the choices involved in translation, interviewing, and selecting a global portrait.
Movie at a Glance
- Release year
- 2011
- Genre
- Global childhood documentary
- U.S. rating
- Not rated
- Runtime
- Approx. 94 minutes
- Director
- Genevieve Bailey
- Writing / format
- Documentary; no fictional screenplay
- Based on
- Documentary interviews with children
- Music
- Nick Huggins
- Featured participants
- Eleven-year-olds from 15 countries (documentary participants)
- Story setting
- Multiple countries · interviews gathered over several years
Check your edition when planning class periods; cuts and playback speeds can change runtime.
Content to Preview
- Children discuss bullying, violence, hardship, and suicide-related distress.
- Family separation, grief, and discussion of war and terrorism.
- Some mature language and topics; offer an alternative without requiring explanation.
Preview your edition, follow school viewing and permission policies, and provide an appropriate alternative assignment. Suggested grades 6–12 are Teach Arcade’s classroom recommendation, separate from the film’s U.S. rating.
Classroom Connections
Use scene evidence to explore the topics above. Pair historical portrayals with reliable sources, literary adaptations with their texts, and animated metaphors with appropriate factual context.
Film details, advisories & classroom context: Official filmmaker information · Filmmaker and composer credits · Content advisory (spoilers)