'Man: A Course of Study'(MACOS), was a program with the ambitious goal of teaching American children what it was to be human. At the program's core was a benchmark of visual anthropology, the Netsilik Film Series, capturing a year in the life of a small Inuit community on the cusp of contact. MACOS created a clash of values that rippled throughout the schools of America, and revealed the fragile relationship between politics and educational reform. Weaving together remarkable archival and contemporary footage, this film revisits the politics and controversy of this unprecedented era in American educational reform and offers an historical perspective on the study of anthropology.