The Eye of the Storm (1970)

Directed by

William Peters

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

25 min

Rating

8.1 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A schoolteacher runs an exercise on discrimination with her third-grade students. The children learn how it feels to be judged by their eye color.

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What happens

The Eye of the Storm is a 1970 American television documentary featuring schoolteacher Jane Elliott conducting her "Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes" exercise in discrimination, in her third-grade classroom at Riceville Elementary School in Riceville, Iowa. Riceville, a small town near the Minnesota border, is almost entirely white; in that context, young children had little understanding of the concept of discrimination. The documentary is narrated by Bill Beutel and directed by William Peters, who developed the idea with his spouse and associate producer, Muriel Peters. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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