American High

2000 • FOX

American High is a 13-part documentary series that journeys with 14 students at Illinois’ Highland Park High School. The series follows the lives of a group of students as they deal with their personal conflicts – both at home and at school – from the first day of senior year through graduation.

“What’s going on here is a delicate but insistent probing of contemporary, middle-class American adolescence, a subject that usually gets only lip service- particularly from television.” – New York Daily News

“Each story is, in and of itself, a vivid and affecting slice of life-on-the- verge. Shuffled together, they form a discursive epic of both the inner and outer struggle of the Misunderstood American Teen.” – The Nation

“American High has the kind of nuanced, compelling dramas that you’d never see on a scripted show.” – Newsweek

Awards

Emmy Award, Outstanding Reality Program (2000)
Emmy Award Nominee, Outstanding Reality Program (2001)
GLAAD Media Award Nominee, Best Documentary Series