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Paper Clips
2004
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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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: , Watch Online: |
| 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
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An unusual and touching story
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9 out of 11 people found this review helpful
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.
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9 out of 11 people found this review helpful
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.
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