It is a simple story, as we said, but it is about so much. It is about leadership, true education, bringing tolerance and diversity to a homogenous population, remembering the dead, students who change the lives of teachers, diverse cultures that embrace each other, and making history out of a humble project that was aimed at learning a lesson from history.
"Paper Clips" is a story about an effort to teach the embracing of different cultures and religions that just snowballs. Unlike so many well-meaning initiatives, this one just keeps mowing over obstacles. Whenever there is a roadblock, something happens or someone shows up -- most notably a kindly and tenacious German husband-and-wife journalist team (the Schroeders) -- and the paper clip project advances beyond anyone's expectations.
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[Whitwell Middle School Principal] Linda Hooper taught us something too. It's been a long time since we've seen a film that made us proud to be an American, and to finally meet a principal that we wanted to just hug.
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Whitwell Middle School in rural Tennessee is the setting for this documentary about an extraordinary experiment in Holocaust education. Struggling to grasp the concept of six-million Holocaust victims, the students decide to collect six-million paper clips to better understand the extent of this crime against humanity. The film details how the students met Holocaust survivors from around the world and how the experience transformed them and their community.
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"The events depicted in Paper Clips are by turns heartwarming, horrifying, amazing, and exactly the type of real-world improbability that the documentary form was created for."
-- Austin Chronicle
"Testimony to a peculiarly American blend of optimism and sentiment, which makes even an unfathomable historical horror into a reason for young people to feel good about themselves."
-- New York Times
"That America has been divided by pundits into blue states and red states does not mean there are not good-hearted people living everywhere; in a time of divisiveness, there is something innocently naive about the paper clip project, which transforms a silly mountain of paper clips into a small town's touching gesture."
-- Roger Ebert
"What makes Paper Clips so powerful and moving is the way everyone in the film seems affected by the Whitwell project. The students change. The teachers change. The townspeople change."
-- San Francisco Chronicle
"Patiently told and lovingly made."
-- Variety
"An inspiring documentary about a consciousness-raising project that blossomed into something beautiful. This is a great film for families and classrooms to watch together."
-- Amazon.com
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Paper Clips:
# Directors: Elliot Berlin, Joe Fab
# Format: Color, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
# Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
# Rated: G (General Audience)
# Studio: Hart Sharp Video
# DVD Release Date: March 7, 2006
# Run Time: 84 minutes
# ASIN: B000CMNJF4
# DVD Features:
* Available Subtitles: Spanish, French
* Bonus scene
* Extended scenes
* Interviews with Holocaust Survivors
* Bonus Interview excerpts
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