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This award winning and inspiring documentary tells the story of how the students of a small town school started working on a history assignment that snowballed into a unique and touching Holocaust memorial which gained world-wide attention. Struggling to grasp the concept of six-million Holocaust victims, the students decide .. Read more

Starring Tom Bosley, Linda Hooper, Sandra Roberts, Peter Schroeder
Director Joe Fab, Elliot Berlin
Genres Documentary

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Paper Clips

This award winning and inspiring documentary tells the story of how the students of a small town school started working on a history assignment that snowballed into a unique and touching Holocaust memorial which gained world-wide attention. Struggling to grasp the concept of six-million Holocaust victims, the students decide to collect paper clips to better understand the extent of this crime against humanity, one for each victim. In the end the students collect many more than the original six million, representing the much higher death toll that affected other minorities under the Nazi regime. This incredible and fascinating film details how the students met Holocaust survivors from around the world and how the experience transformed them and their community, eventually becoming a unique and uplifting phenomenon which touched the hearts of millions over the world over.

Starring Tom Bosley, Linda Hooper, Sandra Roberts, Peter Schroeder, Dagmar Schroeder-Hildebrand
Director Joe Fab, Elliot Berlin
Studio LIONS GATE HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 24 mins
Watch now: 1 hr 24 mins
Certificate DVD: DVD Certificate U.gif, Watch Online: Watch Online Certificate tbc (TBC)
Genres Documentary
Language English
Released DVD: 22 Jan 2007
Watch now: 05 Nov 2009
Production year: 2004
Watch now £2.49
Format DVD

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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

    • Dave Calhoun, 
    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

  • An unusual and touching story

    • Sunday Express
    • Posted 08 Oct 2007

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  • 9 out of 11 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Thought provoking

    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.

      • A customer from Kent, Uk
      • Posted 14 Feb 2007 22:39

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  • 6 out of 10 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    powerful

    I was very impressed and deeply moved by this documentary. I felt it told a lot about the Holocaust, from a very personal point of view. It is sad another reviewer was disappointed because it was a documentary rather than a film, but personally I like to hear about true stories, especially one as amazing as this. As a teacher I would have been proud to have been part of this and it was good how each incoming eighth grade year group moved the project on. I thought the production and development was good. I feel it should be compulsory viewing as part of high school history. and other adults too. The sad thing is that ethnic cleansing still goes on so we haven't learnt that lesson. Well done Whitwell Middle School. If ever in Tennesee I shall come and visit and Paper clips have taken on a new meaning for me.

      • Alison from Surrey
      • Posted 22 Feb 2007 19:35

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