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Running time. 75 minutes. Country. United States. Language. English. 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.
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Storyline. Producer and director Frederick Wiseman takes his camera into a high school in 1968 and records events as they occur. Told without narration, the film essentially listens in on students, teachers and parents as they deal with issues of everyday life.
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Summaries. Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside Northeast High School as a fly on the wall to observe the teachers and how they interact with the students. Producer and director Frederick Wiseman takes his camera into a high school in 1968 and records events as they occur.
Bottom Line: High School is an unsettling documentary about life inside a secondary school. It’s an effective time capsule but its real value is a look at the way institutions shape the people operating inside of it and how education both reflects and molds the culture.
Cited by the Library of Congress as a National Treasure, this 1968 film is both a document of the times and a statement of the ways in which school is used by one generation to pass its...
HIGH SCHOOL (1968) Docs Redux. 75 min. Frederick Wiseman’s second film as a director looks at an urban Philadelphia high school, capturing interactions between students, teachers, parents and administrators.
