Movie Description

A Class Divided

(1985)

Overview

William Peters follows up on the 1970 TV documentary Eye of the Storm about Jane Elliott's experiment of dividing an otherwise homogenous group of school kids by their eye color. The episode intercuts footage from Eye of the Storm with new footage of the students, who are now adults. The film takes us through the journey of a young class learning the unfairness of racism. Elliot teaches the lesson through eye color and different treatment. All of the students admit that this is wrong. In footage of the students as adults, we are able to see how this shaped the experiment changed their lives.

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Original TitleA Class Divided

Status Released

Release Information

  • 1985-03-25

Original LanguageEnglish

Runtime 00h 53m

Homepagehttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/class-divided/

Production CompaniesFRONTLINE,PBS

Genres

  • Documentary