School of Courage (Russian: Школа мужества, romanized: Shkola Muzhestva) is a 1954 Soviet war/adventure film directed by Vladimir Basov and Mstislav Korchagin.

[1][2] Meant for juvenile audience, it became a 1954 Soviet box office leaders[3] (10th place with 27.2 million viewers[4]).

[2][6][7] The film tells about a Russian high school student, Boris Golikov, during the First World War.

He has been influenced by the official Czarist patriotism of the period, and is consequently horrified when he learns that his father has deserted from the front.

With the detachment, he goes through the rear lines of the White forces to join up with the main Red Army.