The King's Speech: Film Guide

The King's Speech
The King's Speech

Ages

11+

Duration

Short (1-4 activities)

Nation

England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales

A film guide that looks at The King's Speech (2010), in which Colin Firth gives an award-winning performance as the stammering King George VI in British director Tom Hooper's film about the wartime monarch.

This guide is useful for exploring topics including English, History, Citizenship, and PSHE Education in addition to highlighting themes surrounding historical periods, disabilities and inclusion, events and figures, the mass media, World War Two, democracy and rights, health and wellbeing and community.

This resource includes

This Resource Supports

  • Citizenship
  • English
  • History
  • PSHE Education

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