The Last Class
August 22 – August 28, 2025 · view days & times
Venue: Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas
2025 | NR | 1 hr 11 mins
Directed by: Elliot Kirschner
Featuring: Robert Reich
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.
Friday, August 22
(4:00 p.m.)Saturday, August 23
(12:00 p.m.)Monday, August 25
(4:30 p.m.)Tuesday, August 26
7:30 p.m.*Part of Half Off Tuesdays. Tickets are 50% off all day long (no code required, available online or at the box office. Sale price before taxes and fees).
Wednesday, August 27
(3:30 p.m.)Thursday, August 28
(4:45 p.m.)*Ages 25 and under & senior discounts apply at the box office only.
Schedule
- Friday, August 22, 2025 @ 4:00 PM 08/22/2025 04:00 PM 08/22/2025 07:00 PM 15 The Last Class https://www.steelstacks.org/event/17621/the-last-class/ Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas false MM/DD/YYYY
- Saturday, August 23, 2025 @ 12:00 PM 08/23/2025 12:00 PM 08/23/2025 03:00 PM 15 The Last Class https://www.steelstacks.org/event/17621/the-last-class/ Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas false MM/DD/YYYY
- Monday, August 25, 2025 @ 4:30 PM 08/25/2025 04:30 PM 08/25/2025 07:30 PM 15 The Last Class https://www.steelstacks.org/event/17621/the-last-class/ Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas false MM/DD/YYYY
- Tuesday, August 26, 2025 @ 7:30 PM 08/26/2025 07:30 PM 08/26/2025 10:30 PM 15 The Last Class https://www.steelstacks.org/event/17621/the-last-class/ Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas false MM/DD/YYYY
- Wednesday, August 27, 2025 @ 3:30 PM 08/27/2025 03:30 PM 08/27/2025 06:30 PM 15 The Last Class https://www.steelstacks.org/event/17621/the-last-class/ Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas false MM/DD/YYYY
- Thursday, August 28, 2025 @ 4:45 PM 08/28/2025 04:45 PM 08/28/2025 07:45 PM 15 The Last Class https://www.steelstacks.org/event/17621/the-last-class/ Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas false MM/DD/YYYY
Venue Information
Frank Banko Alehouse CinemasArtsQuest Center
101 Founders Way
Bethlehem, PA 18015
610-332-1300
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