The Wave

The Wave

198144 min6.9 / 10

A sobering classroom experiment that exposes how ordinary people—even teenagers—can be manipulated into authoritarianism, grounded in historical parallel and moral urgency.

A teacher conducts an experiment in an American high school where students learn how easy it is to be seduced by the same social forces which led to the horrors of Nazi Germany.

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