The Eye of the Storm
★ 8.1 · 1970 · 25m · Documentary · TV Movie
The very first documentary about Jane Elliott's educational experiment about discrimination, which was originally produced for ABC News, in which she conducts an unforgettable lesson with her third-grade class in Riceville, Iowa.
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