THE LAST CLASS
*Held over through Aug 28* Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich always considered teaching his true calling. As he faces his final class, he wrestles with the dual realities of his own aging and his students inheriting a world out of balance.
SHOWTIMES
AUG 15 | FRI
7:15 p.m.
AUG 16 | SAT
2:45, 7:15 p.m.
AUG 17 | SUN
12:30, 5:00 p.m.
AUG 18 | MON
5:00 p.m.
AUG 19 | TUE
NO SCREENINGS
AUG 20 | WED
5:15 p.m.
AUG 21 | THU
7:15 p.m.
AUG 22 | FRI
7:10 p.m.
AUG 23 | SAT
12:40, 5:00 p.m.
AUG 24 | SUN
2:50, 7:10 p.m.
AUG 25 | MON
5:00 p.m.
AUG 26 | TUE
NO SCREENINGS
AUG 27 | WED
5:00 p.m.
AUG 28 | THU
7:10 p.m.
SYNOPSIS
The Last Class is a nuanced and deeply personal portrait of master educator Robert Reich teaching his final course and reflecting on a period of immense transformation, personally and globally. It is a love letter to education. The former Secretary of Labor might be famous for his public service, best-selling books, and viral social media posts, but he always considered teaching his true calling. Now, after over 40 years and an extraordinary 40,000 students, Reich is preparing for his last class.
Over the course of the film, Reich confronts the impending finality, and his own aging, with increasing candor, introspection, and, ultimately, emotion. He displays a rawness of feeling he has never shared publicly before. Drawing on his lifetime in politics, he uses his class, “Wealth and Poverty,” to offer us all a deeper look at why inequalities of income and wealth have widened significantly since the late 1970s, and why this poses dangerous risks to our society.
One thousand students fill the biggest lecture hall on the UC Berkeley campus, the last class to receive Reich’s wisdom and exhortations not to accept that the world has to stay the way it is. His belief in the next generation’s ability to take on the fight is inspiring.
Director
Elliot Kirschner
WITH
Robert Reich
Run Time
1 hour, 11 minutes
Released
June 27, 2025
Distributed by
Abramorama
HEARING AND VISUAL ASSISTANCE
Assisted Listening
Country
United States
SUBTITLES
None
NOT RATED
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REVIEWS
“All in all, it’s heartening to hear a major figure in American political history talking about the future as if it might actually happen.”