Waiting for “Superman” is a 2010 family documentary film from director Davis Guggenheim. The film analyzes the failures of American public education by following several students through the educational system. In “Waiting for ‘Superman,’ ” which opened last Friday, Guggenheim follows five families in their quests to get their children into charter schools he portrays as vastly superior to the ones they’d otherwise attend. With a raft of statistics about the erosion of the U.S. education system, and interviews with a handful of so-called education “reformers,” Guggenheim makes a case for why no child should have to attend a bad school.

The film is drawing a strong positive response from education groups across the nation who hope it will catalyze more public support for change. On Monday, Oprah Winfrey featured the documentary on her show, talking with Guggenheim and Bill Gates, who also appears in the film, and in interview talked about how lucky he was and his children are to be able to attend Private School and how some people not.