The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind

Movie Guide: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 

Watch the Netflix Film: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (1 hour 53 minutes) directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor. Divide the class into three groups: poverty, social responsibility, and innovation. Each group should write down answers to the eight assigned questions while watching the movie. Each group can continue to answer the questions after done watching the movie. Each group should prepare a presentation answering the assigned questions (see below).

Group 1: Poverty

While you watch the movie, write down answers to the following questions:

• What do people eat?
• How do they get water for drinking and washing?
• What tools do they use for farming, cooking, and farming?
• How do they water the fields?
• Who gets to go to school?
• What transportation do they have?
• How does the library look like?
• What message does this movie send?

Group 2: Social Responsibility

• What risk did the farmers take when selling the trees?
• What risk is Trywell taking when he joins a rally?
• What risk did the village chief take when criticizing the president on stage?
• What drives William’s experiment with energy to power the pump?
• What kinds of violence and crime are caused by famine?
• Could the windmill be made without the help of William’s family and friends?
• How do people with different faiths live side by side in this movie?
• What message does this movie send?

Group 3: Innovation

• What does William look for in the junkyard?
• Why does he need science classes and the library?
• Why did Annie want to pursue a degree?
• What subjects did William need to learn to build a windmill?
• What materials is William missing for building a windmill?
• Why did William’s father get angry when William ask for his support to build a windmill?
• Why did William’s father tell him to accept the scholarship and go to school?
• What message does this movie send?