The Angry Eye

A short documentary featuring renowned diversity trainer Jane Elliott conducting one of her famous "Blue-Eyed, Brown-Eyed" sensitivity sessions, The Angry Eye focuses on a mixed-race group of college students (Elliott initiated the training program with third-graders in 1968 following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and became the subject of various award-winning network television programs in subsequent decades). The "Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes" role-playing experiment arbitrarily segregates workshop participants according to eye pigment, with the "inferior" group treated to unrelenting hell and humiliation from Elliott. While the material is hard to watch (and one is tempted to take Elliott to task for her brutal techniques), post-session interviews with the students suggest that their collective consciousness regarding discrimination was indeed raised. Recommended. Aud: C, P. (T. Keogh)