What is Gates of Heaven's IQ Score?

Gates of Heaven has an IQ Score of 163/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient framework, placing it in the Masterclass tier. The score breaks down to 41/50 Cognitive Stimulation, 40/50 Educational Value, and 41/50 Craft & Quality.

Is Gates of Heaven educational?

Gates of Heaven is strong on educational value, 40/50 on TVI's rubric, which covers academic content, emotional intelligence, critical thinking, life skills, and knowledge transfer.

How does TV Intelligentsia calculate IQ Score?

TV Intelligentsia's IQ Score is calculated as round((Cognitive Stimulation × 0.4 + Educational Value × 0.35 + Craft & Quality × 0.25) × 4), scoring titles from 0 to 200 across five tiers: Masterclass (≥160), Stimulating (≥130), Competent (≥100), Passive (≥70), and Numbing (<70). The framework is published at tvintelligentsia.com/methodology/.

Gates of Heaven , IQ Score 163/200

Gates of Heaven has an IQ Score of 163/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Masterclass tier.

By Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH·Updated 2026-06-17·Methodology

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163/ 200

Masterclass

Measurably increases domain knowledge or cognitive capacity

Score Breakdown

Cognitive Stimulation/50

Educational Value/50

Craft & Quality/50

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Why you should trust this score

Scored under Jordan Robinson, MD, MPH

Physician and founding editor. Maintains the adult catalog against the published rubric and reviews the rubric application.

Methodology

Published rubric, v1.2

Formula

round(C × 0.40 + E × 0.35 + Q × 0.25) × 4

Database scale

2,338 titles, version-controlled

TVI Canon

Errol Morris →

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The TVI Take

Errol Morris's 1978 directorial debut about two pet cemeteries in Napa Valley, California. The structural commitment to letting the pet-owners' specific cognitive register render genuine human-existential material, Werner Herzog famously ate his shoe on a bet that Morris would never finish the film, established the documentary catalog Morris would extend.

Roger Ebert ranked it among the medium's ten greatest documentaries.

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