A Class Divided

Name: A Class Divided
Uploaded: 2019
Duration: 53 min

201953 minHD★ 8.4Society & Politics

Editor's Take

Documenting Jane Elliott's blue-eyes, brown-eyes experiment, first run with schoolchildren the day after King's assassination, the film observes prejudice manufactured in a classroom within minutes. It follows both the original lesson and the adults those pupils became, testing whether the exercise left a lasting mark. Plainly shot and quietly devastating, it lets the demonstration make its own argument.

A Class Divided revisits teacher Jane Elliott's famous lesson in discrimination, first carried out the day after Martin Luther King Jr. was killed. She divided her all-white third-grade class by eye colour to show how quickly prejudice can take hold and how deeply it wounds. The film follows the exercise and the lasting impact it had on her students years later. It is a powerful and enduring study of bias and empathy. Free to watch in HD on Dr Documentary.

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