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Blue Eyed

1996 · 90 min

An uncomfortable, quietly devastating watch that puts you inside the room as confident adults are systematically broken down.

Directed by
Bertram Verhaag
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Jane Elliott, Martin Luther King Jr.
Overview
In BLUE-EYED, we join a group of 40 teachers, police, school administrators and social workers in Kansas City - blacks, Hispanics, whites, women and men. The blue-eyed members are subjected to pseudo-scientific explanations of their inferiority, culturally biased IQ tests and blatant discrimination. In just a few hours under Ms. Elliott's withering regime, we watch grown professionals become despondent and distracted, stumbling over the simplest commands.

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Directed by
Bertram Verhaag
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Jane Elliott, Martin Luther King Jr.
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  • darkstrength 2 of 3
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  • race
  • power
  • identity
  • morality
  • trauma
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  • workplace
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contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • true story
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  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
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Details

Genres
documentary
Directed by
Bertram Verhaag
Written by
Jane Elliott, Bertram Verhaag
Starring
Jane Elliott, Martin Luther King Jr.
Cinematography
Waldemar Hauschild
Runtime
90 min
Country
Germany, United States of America
Languages
English, German

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