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  • FOX
  • Aug 2, 2000
  • FOX
  • Aug 2, 2000
American High

Summary This documentary series tracked the experiences of 14 students at Illinois' Highland Park High School throughout the 1999-2000 school year. Participants also chronicled their home lives through video diary entries. Documentary filmmaker R.J. Cutler served as executive producer for this series. Unaired episodes were shown on PBS. Th...

  • FOX
  • Aug 2, 2000
  • FOX
  • Aug 2, 2000
American High
Season 1
Season Premiere: Aug 2, 2000
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Summary This documentary series tracked the experiences of 14 students at Illinois' Highland Park High School throughout the 1999-2000 school year. Participants also chronicled their home lives through video diary entries. Documentary filmmaker R.J. Cutler served as executive producer for this series. Unaired episodes were shown on PBS. Th...

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This reality series/teen show is a thousand times realer, factually and emotionally, than Big Brother and Dawson's Creek put together.
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Achingly real stories of desperate teenage love, emerging sexual identity, athletic pressure and parental confusion.
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