High School is a 1968 American documentary film directed by Frederick Wiseman, which follows the typical day of a group of students at Northeast High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was one of the first direct cinema (or cinéma vérité) documentaries. It was shot over five weeks in March and April 1968. The film was banned from being shown in Philadelphia for a number of years due to the way it depicted high schoolers as being oppressed. ...
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High School is a 1968 American documentary film directed by Frederick Wiseman, which follows the typical day of a group of students at Northeast High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was one of the first direct cinema (or cinéma vérité) documentaries. It was shot over five weeks in March and April 1968. The film was banned from being shown in Philadelphia for a number of years due to the way it depicted high schoolers as being oppressed. Few Northeast students, faculty or administrators actually saw the film, so this perception was largely based on hear-say, newspaper editorials and anger over not being able to see the film.
The film was released in October 1968 by Wiseman's distribution company Zipporah Films. It was well received when the principal and the staff in the board of education saw it in December 1968. They thought the film was a mostly accurate picture of the school. However, Northeast's principal, Mabel Haller, announced in Philadelphia that she ought to have...
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