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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Part of Jane Elliot Collection
2 films
Cast
13 people
Jane Elliott
Herself
Elizabeth Arledge
William Peters
Charlie Cobb
Charlie Cobb
Marrie Campbell
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King
Also in
Martin Luther King: More Than One Dream
Assassinations That Changed the World
Jerome Cobb
Judy Woodruff
Judy Woodruff
Sally Evans
David Fanning
Mark Hellman
Michael Kirk
William Peters Director · Charlie Cobb Writer
United States release March 25, 1985 · Produced in United States · Production PBS
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FRONTLINE
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PBS
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United States
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English
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English
Release dates
United States · March 25, 1985
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