Paper Clips (2004)

Directed by

Joe Fab, Elliot Berlin

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 22m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 19 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows a middle school class in rural Tennessee. They collect paper clips to represent each person killed in the Holocaust. The project grows into a memorial that transforms the students and their community.

educationalinspirationalreflectiveearnestemotionalthoughtfulhopeful

What happens

Paper Clips is a 2004 American documentary film written and produced by Joe Fab, and directed by Fab and Elliot Berlin, about the Paper Clips Project, in which a middle school class tries to collect 6 million paper clips to represent the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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