Henry Fonda narrated this really quite dry documentary looking at the state of opportunity for young people from less privileged backgrounds in the American Mid-West. Centred around a group of curious and aware students in their late teens, it follows their educational processes, their debates with each other, their politics - inducing reason and anger in equal measure, before rounding off with some well-intentioned, if a little earnest, commentary from educators about how education can and will improve the lot of just about everyone in an American society that is still rife with segregation. …
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