In 1998, a group of Tennessee schoolchildren embarked on a class project that would change their lives and impact those of countless others around the world. Responding to a history lesson about the Holocaust, the students began collecting 11 million paper clips (a Norwegian symbol of Nazi resistance) to commemorate each of the .. Read more
| Starring | Tom Bosley, Linda Hooper, Sandra Roberts, Peter Schroeder |
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| Director | Joe Fab, Elliot Berlin |
| Run time | 84 mins |
| Genres | Documentary |
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This well-meaning, if hardly inventive and sometimes a little cloying, documentary recalls an unusual project... read more on Time Out
An unusual and touching story
I've just watched this and thought the previous reviewer missed the point. It started as a paper clip exercise but ended up as something much deeper - about people, old and young, examining their own prejudices. This was brought about by their contact with Holocaust Survivors and with their research. There was some very touching moments when these survivors told their stories - and that's what the film was about - not about the statistics but about the reality of what it felt like to be 100 deep in a cattle car on the way to a concentration camp, about youngsters today being touched by something that happened more than 60 years ago.
This is gonna be one of those things, that you either love, or just don't get and thus hate? I personally loved it, it did what a deep film should do, it got me thinking. It's very moving and inspiring and makes you wonder what we could all achieve if we put our minds to it.