The Last Class
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The Last Class

May 09, 2026

A love letter to education, this nuanced portrait of professor and former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich '68 explores our country's deepening income gap in his final course.

The Last Class with Robert Reich | Official Trailer

 

The former Secretary of Labor and Dartmouth alum Robert Reich '68 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.

D: Elliot Kirschner, US, 2025, 1h11m

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