High School

Frederick Wiseman’s riveting portrait of life inside a large city high school, where social and moral values are handed down.

Frederick Wiseman ventures inside a large city high school – the most everyday of American institutions – where lessons range from debates on existentialism to a simulated space flight. Assembled with dry humour, a series of formal and informal encounters between teachers, students, parents and administrators shows how education is steeped in the passing on of social and moral values.