High School

High School is a 1968 American documentary film by Frederick Wiseman that shows a typical day for students and faculty at a Pennsylvania high school during the late 1960s. It is one of the first direct cinema documentaries, shot over five weeks between March and April 1968 at Northeast High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The film offers a glimpse into the everyday struggle teachers face to discipline their unruly charges, as well as the clash of generational values, with the instructors as torchbearers for a general worldview on the wane and the students as the voices of a new country being born in their image.