The Lottery is a 2010 documentary film about the controversy surrounding public and charter schools in the United States, directed by Madeleine Sackler.

[1] The film was produced by Blake Ashman-Kipervaser, James Lawler, and Madeleine Sackler.

The cinematographer was Wolfgang Held (Brüno, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, Children Underground).

[2] Sackler, a graduate of Duke University, said she was inspired to make the film by news footage of a charter-school lottery at the Harlem Armory in 2008.

"[7] Errol Louis in the New York Daily News compared it to An Inconvenient Truth, arguing that it "will create and energize charter supporters by the thousands.