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New Trier: Tip of the Spear (2017)
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77 min | Documentary

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New Trier: Tip of the Spear (2017)

E10+

77 min | Documentary

New Trier's 2017 Seminar Day, "Understanding Today's Struggle for Racial Civil Rights", has generated significant statewide controversy, some national controversy - and virtually no controversy within New Trier Township. What gives? Who ...See moreNew Trier's 2017 Seminar Day, "Understanding Today's Struggle for Racial Civil Rights", has generated significant statewide controversy, some national controversy - and virtually no controversy within New Trier Township. What gives? Who are these forces so opposed to this single day of educational programming? Are they really upset about Seminar Day - or could this be about something else entirely? Local filmmaker Paul Traynor inexplicably found himself deep inside the controversy surrounding Seminar Day 2017. See how his search for answers led to appearances on television and radio, attacks from Christian hate groups and conservative shock-jocks, being named in Freedom of Information Act requests filed at New Trier High School, and being forced to cancel the Premiere the movie at the threat of a Cease and Desist letter from a downtown Chicago law firm representing anonymous, shadowy clients. Public education is under attack in America. Dark money is being poured into local municipal elections. Billionaires, governors, and prominent figures are injecting themselves into a non-partisan race. It seems like a bizarre conspiracy theory - but it's happening. And New Trier is just the Tip of the Spear. Written by Paul Traynor See less

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19 cast members

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Eddie Arruza Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Chicago Tonight (1984)
Betsy DeVos Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	She Thinks (2015)
Dwight D. Eisenhower Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Nazi Concentration and Prison Camps (1945)
Rahm Emanuel Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Madzilla! (2014)
Mark Glennon Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Betsy Hart Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Dennis Miller (2004)
Jasmine Hauser Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Patrick Hughes Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Amy Jacobson Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Charles G. Koch Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Citizen Koch (2013)
David H. Koch Self (archive footage) (as David Koch) Self (archive footage) (as David Koch) See fewer	Nova (1974)
Joan Lasonde Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Sylvie Légère Self (archive footage) (as Sylvie Legere Ricketts) Self (archive footage) (as Sylvie Legere Ricketts) See fewer	Joe Watkins: State of Independence (2020)
Kathy Myalls Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
John Oliver Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014)
Dan Proft Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Tucker Carlson Tonight (2016)
Bruce Rauner Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	WGN Morning News (1994)
Paul Traynor Self Self See fewer	Witches' Night (2007)
Richard E. Uihlein Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Torchbearer (2016)