Desc: The Marva Collins Story: Directed by Peter Levin. With Cicely Tyson, Morgan Freeman, Rodrick F. Wimberly, Mashaune Hardy. In this touching story, a dedicated African-American teacher in an inner-city school in the midwestern United States facing tough odds helps inner-city children to succeed. Meanwhile, she faces an adversarial colleague and a principal who disapproves of her teaching methods. To top it off, a youth regularly messes up the classroom after school to tick the teacher off.