
The Last Class
Robert Reich's final Berkeley lecture becomes a concise meditation on teaching, inequality, and the reach of a public intellectual.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Mild
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- None
- thoughtful
- earnest
- intimate
- quiet afternoon
- classroom discussion
What critics said
The available audience rating indicates a favorable response to the film's focused educational portrait and socially engaged subject.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The film centers on Robert Reich teaching his final University of California, Berkeley class after four decades in the classroom.
The featured course, Wealth and Poverty, connects university teaching with public discussion of inequality.
Reich's final class is framed against a career that reached approximately 40,000 students.
Reich's individual teaching appearance provides the lens for discussing wealth and poverty as social issues.
Films like The Last Class, and why
An Inconvenient Truth
Shares a lecture-centered documentary format, public education focus, and accessible engagement with economic inequality.
At Berkeley
Shares an observational portrait of an academic institution and an interest in education as a public civic practice.
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Shares a warm biographical documentary approach centered on a public educator's influence and enduring social legacy.
Movie Details
- Director
- Elliot Kirschner
- Release Date
- 2025-06-27
- Runtime
- 71 min
- Rating
- 10.0 / 10 (1)
Cast
- Robert Reich
Common questions
- What is The Last Class about?
- Robert Reich's final Berkeley lecture becomes a concise meditation on teaching, inequality, and the reach of a public intellectual.
- What is The Last Class like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of The Last Class as measured, its intensity as mild and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is The Last Class violent?
- No — Ember's analysis finds no violence in The Last Class.
- What did critics think of The Last Class?
- The available audience rating indicates a favorable response to the film's focused educational portrait and socially engaged subject.
- Which films are like The Last Class?
- Films with a similar feel include An Inconvenient Truth, At Berkeley, and Won't You Be My Neighbor?.
- How long is The Last Class?
- The Last Class runs 71 minutes.












