High School Boot Camp

Are These Kids Ready To Be All They Can Be?

Wake up call is 4 a.m. Entertainment is a bucket of ice water on your head. Welcome to boot camp!

Winner of the prestigious DGA award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary, High School Boot Camp is an eye-opening look at the controversial world of a youth boot camp. Award-winning filmmaker Chuck Braverman takes us through an intensive six-month drill at the Eagle Academy in rural Belle Glade, Florida, where another class of "at-risk" youths has voluntarily enlisted in the hopes of getting back on track. But as these cocky recruits approach the inbound bus, they have no idea what´s in store for them. Can they endure such tough discipline? Will they survive the Marine-type training? What exactly will it take to change their self-destructive ways?

It´s not exactly summer camp - but for these kids and their families, it may be their last hope.