FC-13. Jane Elliott Against the World

US, Feature Documentary, 2026, 97 min

Spotlight on the Sundance Film Festival 2026

For more than 55 years, Jane Elliott has forced white America to confront truths it still refuses to face. After Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, she entered her all-white third-grade classroom in small-town Iowa and launched the Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes exercise, showing how quickly children learn power, privilege and cruelty. That moment propelled her onto the national stage, and she has spent a lifetime refusing silence. Now nearing 90, Elliott is fearless and unyielding. Schools ban her. Critics attack her. Yet her influence only grows. Featuring voices like Killer Mike and Ibram X. Kendi, Jane Elliott Against the World is a reckoning — and a challenge: Who will carry the fight forward?

Directed by Judd Ehrlich

Colorado Premiere

A Call2Action selection