Patiently told and lovingly made, doc overflows with emotion as it portrays rural Tennessee middle school students making a unique Holocaust memorial. Unlikely setting gives the story poignancy. Pic ...

Elliot Berlin, a producer, writer and director of documentaries including “Paper Clips” (2004), which explored how a Tennessee town’s tolerance and respect for others grew when its children studied ...

As Linda Hooper remembers it, the Paper Clip Project began with a question by a student at the middle school in rural Whitwell, Tenn., where she is principal. “What is 6 million?” the sixth-grade ...

The paper clip is something of a fetish object in design circles. Its spare, machined aesthetic and its inexpensive ubiquity landed it a spot in MoMA’s 2004 show Humble Masterpieces. This was a ...

In 1998, the students of Tennessee’s Whitwell Middle School set out to collect 6 million paper clips to visualize the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust. What ...