Welcome to Commie High (2020)
95 min
During the late 1960s, a wave of experimental public schools based on humanistic and anti-establishment ideas, began spreading across the United States. Community High School, situated in downtown Ann Arbor, MI and considered a "school without walls" by its founders, was challenged from its opening day in 1972. Maligned with a bad reputation, threatened regularly with closures, it was called "Commie High" by some that questioned its merits (and proudly by many within its culture). Fast forward twenty years later, Community High had became so popular that long lines formed to attend, culminating in a two-week camp out in 1996, and a subsequent lottery system for admission. Today "Commie High" remains one of the only schools from this movement to do school differently that survived and continues to evolve and thrive.
- Release date
- May 12, 2019
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Ingrid Racine
Cast
- Tracy Anderson as Self
- Clarence Collins III as Self
- Judith DeWoskin as Self
- Mike Mouradian as Teacher
- Davy Rothbart as Self
- Hannah Rubenstein as Self
- Quinn Strassel as Self
- Kelly Stupple as Self
- Maisie Wilhelm as Self
Crew
- Donald Harrison · Director
- Donald Harrison · Producer
- Ingrid Racine · Composer
- Donald Harrison · Cinematographer
- David Camlin · Editor