Alain Resnais' documentary Night & Fog - 1955 (Nuit et brouillard) is one of several true-life accounts of the horrors of German Concentration camps. Taking actual footage from the times and inter-cutting newer footage of the locations current to filming doesn't change what they were. He tells a story of vacationers stopping to take photos in front of a crematorium as if it were a friend’s home. It's very difficult to imagine that there are people that don't believe the Holocaust ever happened.
Frederick Wiseman's portrayal of High School in the late sixties was a fly-on-the-wall depiction of schools of the time. Today's teachers would be fired for how the detention instructor talked to the boy wrongfully detained for something he didn't do. There were also a number of stereotypical teachings being shown in this particular high school. The girls were mostly taking typing classes and fashion design. The Beatnik teacher reading a Simon & Garfunkel poetry reading also illustrated what was happening in that time period.
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