Movie Details
Theatrical Release:March 25th, 1985
Original Language:English
Production Companies:FRONTLINE, PBS
A Class Divided on the Web:Official Website
Jane Elliot Collection
Documentaries about the teacher Jane Elliot.
A Class Divided (1985)
Audience Score
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.
