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Pages in category "Documentary films about high school in the United States" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Documentary films about high school in the United States (19 P) Pages in category "Documentary films about high school" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
High School is a 1968 American documentary film by Frederick Wiseman that shows a typical day for students and faculty at a Pennsylvanian high school during the late 1960s. It is one of the first direct cinema (or cinéma vérité ) documentaries [ citation needed ] .
The opening film of the 2024 Freep Film Festival is "Rouge," a 90-minute documentary about the River Rouge boys basketball program and 2020 season. 'Rouge' documentary on historic high school ...
The school has not produced a play in twenty years and has no budget, nor a stage. The film documents the efforts by two teachers and twenty-four students to adapt and update Thornton Wilder 's 1938 American classic Our Town , set in an all-white small town between the years 1901 and 1913, to better reflect the ethnic background of Dominguez ...
2 Million Minutes is a series of documentary films exploring how students in the United States, India, and the People's Republic of China spend the nominal 2,000,000 minutes of their high school years. [1] The film has been supported by Newt Gingrich and Al Sharpton. [2]
The film documents Weequahic High School which graduated some of the top students in the country after opening in 1932 and was "known as one of the top schools in America before 1960", with graduates such as novelist Philip Roth. [1] By 2000, the school had disintegrated into a breeding ground for gang violence.
Ira Glass, host of This American Life, said it was "the most amazing reporting on a high school that I had ever seen. It's called 'Seventeen' and it was directed by a couple, a woman named Joel DeMott and a man named Jeff Kreines. It was made in 1983, filmed at Southside High School in Muncie, Indiana. It's just this incredible document.