Blue Eyed (1996)

6.9/10 • 90 min • Documentary

Overview

In BLUE-EYED, we join a group of 40 teachers, police, school administrators and social workers in Kansas City - blacks, Hispanics, whites, women and men. The blue-eyed members are subjected to pseudo-scientific explanations of their inferiority, culturally biased IQ tests and blatant discrimination. In just a few hours under Ms. Elliott's withering regime, we watch grown professionals become despondent and distracted, stumbling over the simplest commands.

Cast

Jane Elliott

Self

Martin Luther King Jr.

Self (archive footage)

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