Knights of the South Bronx - 2005 TV film | Inspiring Chess Movie for Kids

Knights of the South Bronx is a 2005 TV film about a teacher who helps students at a tough inner-city school to succeed by teaching them to play chess. A business man becomes a substitute teacher in a tough school of South Bronx where parents of the students are mostly drug addicts or in jail or just scrambling to pay the bills. He teaches the children how to play the game of chess, and along the way they learn a lot about life. The movie is based on the true story of David MacEnulty who taught schoolchil