Jane Elliott

Acting

Jane Elliott

Born 1933-11-30 10 films

American diversity educator. As a schoolteacher, Jane Elliott became known for her "Blue eyes/Brown eyes" exercise, which she first conducted with her third-grade class on April 5, 1968, the day after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The classroom exercise was filmed in 1970, becoming the documentary The Eye of the Storm. PBS series Frontline featured a reunion of the 1970 class, as well as Elliott's work with adults, in its 1985 episode "A Clas…

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Filmography

10 films
Eye Opener poster

Jane Elliott, an internationally acclaimed diversity champion, conducts her Blue-eyed, Brown-eyed E…

Eye Opener

★ 0.0 2004

The Stolen Eye poster

Jane Elliott brings her brown-eye/blue-eye diversity training to Australia, where she explores raci…

The Stolen Eye

★ 7.0 2002

The Angry Eye poster

This documentary shows Jane Elliott's blue-eyed/brown-eyed experiment set in a college environment…

The Angry Eye

★ 10.0 2001

Blue Eyed poster

In BLUE-EYED, we join a group of 40 teachers, police, school administrators and social workers in K…

Blue Eyed

★ 6.9 1996