Blue Eyed

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Blue Eyed
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Film poster
Directed byBertram Verhaag
Written byBertram Verhaag
Starring Jane Elliott
Release date
  • November 21, 1996 (1996-11-21)(Germany)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryGermany

Blue Eyed is a 1996 documentary film by Bertram Verhaag in which Jane Elliott is teaching a workshop on racism. [1] [2]

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References

  1. "Blue Eyed". 2007. Archived from the original on May 23, 2007.
  2. Bloom, Stephen G. (2021). "Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes: On Race and Jane Elliott's Famous Experiment on Prejudice". Skeptic .