American History X



Derek is a young man who lives in Venice Beach, Los
Angeles with his mother, sisters and his younger
brother Danny. His father worked on the LA fire
department and died in an accident. That incident made
Derek turn to the right-wing extremists and he became
a nazi skinhead. Under influence of the older nazist
Cameron, Derek organise a big gang with nazis. Derek
is Danny’s idol who wants to be exactly like him.
When Derek went to jail everything changed. Derek has
now totally changed opinions and he also tries to make
Danny change opinions.

Danny must do a school project where he is going to
analyse a book. Affected by the racist mood in Venice
Beach, but even more by Derek, Danny chose Hitler’s
book Mein Kampf.
It’s an educational, black principal at Danny’s school
who reads the analyse of the
Mein Kampf projects. Danny then gets one day to write
a new article or to be suspended.
Danny’s new subject: American History X


I think that it’s a great film whit great actors. I
think it would be great idea to show this film in
school to protect the students from racism and nazism.


Director: Tony Kaye
Actors: Edward Norton (Derek), Edward Furlong (Danny),
Stacy Keach (Cameron), Beverly D´Angelo (modern),
Elliot Gould (Murray) and Fairuza Balk.