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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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- Documentary
- Frederick Wiseman
- 1968-11-13
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.
Famed documentarian Frederick Wiseman answers that question in this peek inside Philadelphia's Northeast High School, where the students constantly clash with the teachers, and the teachers wage their own battle against the administration.
- 75 min
Remember high school? Renowned filmmaker Frederick Wiseman's classic documentary High School renders this nearly universal American experience in unforgettable terms. Cited by the...
May 3, 2018 · Wiseman’s second movie after Titicut Follies was 1968’s High School, showing a typical day for a group of students at Northeast High School in Pennsylvania. Twenty-six years later, he ...
Jan 17, 2011 · High School, Wiseman’s second film, depicts Northeast High School, located in Philadelphia. Through the observations of the filmmaker’s camera, the result is an endlessly absorbing look at exchanges between teachers and students, and the desperate need for the older generation to uphold tradition by passing their morals onto students who ...
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.
