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The Eye of the Storm is a american film of genre Documentary released in USA on 22 december 1970

The Eye of the Storm (1970)

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Released in USA 22 december 1970
OriginUSA
Rating82% 4.1421554.1421554.1421554.1421554.142155

The Eye of the Storm is a 25-minute 1970 American television documentary featuring schoolteacher Jane Elliott conducting her "Blue eyes-Brown eyes" exercise in discrimination, narrated by Bill Beutel and directed by William Peters.

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William Peters follows Jane Elliott's conversely controversial and lauded schoolroom exercise of dividing an otherwise homogenous group of elementary school kids by their eye color. It was a demonstration of prejudice and discrimination meant to teach the students about the unfairness of racism, developed as a response to the shooting of Martin Luther King in April 1968. The film records Elliott in 1970 while conducting the exercise for the third time.

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