Brooklyn Castle (2012)

Brooklyn Castle is a documentary about IS 318 an innercity school where more than 65 percent of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level that also happens to have the best most winning junior high school chess team in the country If Albert Einstein who was rated 1800 were to join the team hed only rank fifth best Chess has transformed the school from one cited in 2003 as a school in need of improvement to one of New York Citys best But a series of recessiondriven public school budget cuts now threaten to undermine those hardwon successes