American History X
Directed by Tony Kaye
Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his actions greatly influenced Danny. Reformed and fresh out of prison, Derek severs contact with the gang… From TMDB
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American History X premiered in Los Angeles on October 28, 1998, and on the same week in New York. It received a wider release in the United States on October 30. The film grossed $156,076 in 17 theaters during its opening weekend. The film went on to gross $6,719,864 from 513 theaters in the United States, for a worldwide total of $23,875,127. On Rotten Tomatoes, American History X has an approval rating of 84% based on 89 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "American History X doesn't contend with its subject matter as fully as it could, but Edward Norton's performance gives this hard-hitting drama crucial weight." On Metacritic, the film has…
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60 of 230 · most liked firstThis was HUMPTY DUMPTY X, Tony Kaye’s documentary about his film AMERICAN HISTORY X. So I reached out, watched a screener, and wrote a long email summarizing the movie and what a piece about it would look like. My editor gave me the go-ahead, offering $350 and asking me to file before its premiere.
neutral · AI labelView post →The story behind how AMERICAN HISTORY X was made and edited is really important to understanding how it ended up that way and its a failure of the film, not a failure of media literacy imho bsky.app/profile/mike...
neutral · AI labelView post →The writer of American History X has had a movie in development for 5 years called African History Y? Oh! I guess sometimes “eccentric and difficult” means “visionary creative who clashes with studio fat cats” but it might ALSO mean that you’ve got a whole lot of bats up in your motherfuckin belfry.
neutral · AI labelView post →Somewhat related: The less someone knows about anti-Black racism and nazis, the more that they think that American History X is an anti-racist film and opposes nazism. Nazis use that movie *to recruit*. 🙂🙃 All the Black characters are bad except for one, and listening to him ends in tragedy.🤷🏿♂️
neutral · AI labelView post →“American History X” was the movie. Weird title now. Weird title.
neutral · AI labelView post →some the most cursed shit in ages is happening on twitter. they're doing the thing where nazis only like the parts of American History X before he stops being a nazi but this time it's Ken in the Barbie movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Favorite Star Trek Actor in a Non-Star Trek Role Avery Brooks in 'American History X' An incredibly powerful movie, and while much has been said about what a powerhouse Edward Norton is in this film, Avery Brooks delivers a supporting role performance that felt truly unforgettable to me.
positive · AI labelView post →This has never occurred to me before but American History X was released in October 1998. Musk bought the X.com domain within six months of the movie, in early 1999. Given what we know now, might this not be a coincidence?
neutral · AI labelView post →It's an unhappy thing, but fascists love the imagery in American History X. Even though the text of the film is explicitly, loudly anti-fascist, fascism is politics as aesthetics (and aesthetics as politics), and they revel in deliberate ignorance of all forms of meaning.
neutral · AI labelView post →American History X is a good movie that makes a strong political point.
positive · AI labelView post →It's suspicious as hell to rewatch a thoroughly average movie like "American History X" enough in the 21st Century for it to be a personal reference. This is just a hat on a hat.
negative · AI labelView post →"A new version of American History X but reverse the races" just blows my mind. That wasn't a movie about "white people vs. black people," it was a movie about a guy escaping a very real and specific fascist movement tied to white identity at its very core, by design.
neutral · AI labelView post →I don’t know if younger people under 40 realize that Edward Norton’s American History X is probably the best movie ever made about neo-Nazis and white supremacists in America. I don’t think I’ve ever been able to watch it again. I’m sure acting in that changed him forever.
positive · AI labelView post →As @lindsayellis.bsky.social pointed out in her Mel Brooks video, NeoNazis have co-opted basically every Very Serious Movie (tm) about Nazis and Naziism from Cabaret to American History X as marketing for their shit. The one movie they haven't even TRIED to co-opt? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovCf...
neutral · AI labelView post →#OscarsMonth #filmsky #moviesky Day 24. X (Any film/nominee with X in title/name) American History X (1998) Edward Norton was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor.
neutral · AI labelView post →Irreversible, Se7en, Requiem For a Dream, Dancer in the Dark, Schindler’s List, The Pianist, No Other Land, Grave of the Fireflies, When the Wind Blows, A Clockwork Orange, The Mist, Oldboy, Come and See, Trainspotting, American History X, A Serbian Film…
neutral · AI labelView post →If you don't understand the terms "Peaceful Ethnic Cleansing," "Turd Eater," "Camp of the Saints," "Suicidal Empathy," "Remigration," and "Western Civilization," you will never fully understand what the goal of the alt-right is. And you will think that the film "American History X," reduces racism🤡
neutral · AI labelView post →As I understand it, neonazi groups love and share the (anti-Nazi!) film American History X and associated images, because it makes them look dangerous. They don’t do the same with The Producers.
neutral · AI labelView post →Yeah, Tolkien was anti-fascist, anti-apartheid, etc. But the book he wrote was like catnip for fascists and racists. Similar to how American History X is an example of what the white filmmakers *thought* was an anti-racist movie, but that white nationalists literally show to people to recruit them🤷🏿♂️
neutral · AI labelView post →Something I didn't include in this story is that the guy said in a 2022 podcast interview that his favorite movie was American History X
neutral · AI labelView post →Add a word, ruin a movie American History X-Box
neutral · AI labelView post →#NovemberMovieChallenge #MovieSky Day 5. The First Amendment expressed in a movie. American History X (1998)
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatched American History X last night, damn what a powerful movie. A lot of the dialogue is still completely relevant to our modern discourse. It pains me that these ideas are so central to American history. From slavery, to Dred Scott, to reconstruction, to Jim Crow, to George Wallace, to Trump.
positive · AI labelView post →Is it bad I had to google the Movie as never heard of it (American History X) is about two brothers from Los Angeles who are involved in the white power skinhead and neo-Nazi movements makes you wonder if that's why he renamed Twitter !!!
neutral · AI labelView post →You know what movie really sucks ass is American History X
negative · AI labelView post →Tubi has announced the titles arriving on its platform in February 2026, and it includes the usual eclectic mix of films, from AMERICAN HISTORY X to ZOOLANDER. Here's the full list: whentostream.com/heres-whats-...
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching 'American History X'. 1998 (Tony Kaye) After an exchange with dear friend @mai8chan.bsky.social today - a refresher to one of the most powerful cautionary warnings on film. Made toward the end of the 90's - although the film could have easily been equally as reflective about today.
positive · AI labelView post →Actually the funniest movie experience I ever had was watching American History X after curfew in yeshiva as a teenager on a borrowed iPod Nano
neutral · AI labelView post →I saw people using that term and I did a double take. It's not an appropriate term. It is firmly part of the language of bigots. I associate that term with the movie American History X. The one where Edward Norton was a neo-nazi skinhead. It was the first time I had ever come across it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ever see the movie American History X? Fabulous movie w/ Ed Norton. The scene where he's in jail and Black inmate he's working with mocks the Klan ("what is the only thing we'll do today? Tomorrow? The next day? Hate Black people!") Progressives, basically the same, only add "and Jews"
positive · AI labelView post →I used to love this movie, but like so many other films (American History X I'm looking at you) it winds up glorifying entitled, white male rage. When I watched it as a teen I felt catharsis as he did violence to others, he's framed as justified. I don't think that was the intent of the film makers.
negative · AI labelView post →Spell your name with movie titles 🍿 Miracle on 34th Street I Am Sam Catch Me If You Can Hachi: A Dog's Tale American History X
neutral · AI labelView post →What scene from a movie or TV series shook you to your core? Curb stomp scene American History X. Brilliant movie and actors but this scene haunted me for a while after watching the movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Also American History X is a very popular movie among skinheads despite showing Nazi skinheads as idiot losers who keep failing and eating shit cause …they like to see Nazi skinhead shit regardless of context
neutral · AI labelView post →There is also the same problem as American History X. White supremacy can turn on the movie and think about how cool Robert Matthews was. But in reality, he only had like 8 friends, and he had to rob banks to pay them to he his friend.
neutral · AI labelView post →Nazi salutes at the 2K25 US presidential inauguration? We were warned in the 90's with Betrayal, Talk Radio, American History X and 2001's The Believer. Apt Pupil is a Stephen King adaptation, currently streaming on zero platforms at all. Wonder why that is? film-authority.com/2025/01/21/a...
neutral · AI labelView post →What's one movie scene that made you cringe more than any other? For me I think it's the curb stomp from American History X.
neutral · AI labelView post →A lot of neo-Nazis love American History X despite the message of said movie is that neo-Nazis are pathetic losers who get curb stomped on the regular
neutral · AI labelView post →American History X (1998) Powerful film. The Kerb scene still haunts me. #FilmSky #MovieSky #Movies
positive · AI labelView post →I thought the scene of Grogu curb stomping an Ewok was a little much, but it really helped sell the thematic parallels between this movie and American History X
neutral · AI labelView post →Norton actually played a Neo-nazi in 1998's American History X. He did more than act, taking on some of the editing and other tasks. The film was clearly important to him. So when he speaks, it's not some recent epiphany. He's cared about fighting racism his whole career.
neutral · AI labelView post →There are a lot of neat details in Blade Chimera. Like this movie theater that's showing American History X. Game is great too. Naturally, I wouldn't expect anything less from Team Ladybug. #indiegames
neutral · AI labelView post →Unfortunately this. Would recommend @danielharper.bsky.social and @timescarcass.bsky.social’s discussion on the damage done by American History X (a movie I otherwise liked). @idsgpodcast.bsky.social idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/63-american-...
positive · AI labelView post →I think the most depressing case of people missing the lesson of a movie is American History X.
neutral · AI labelView post →Writers in the future doing TV and movie Nazis need to make their bad guys closer to Nazis in The Producers than the Nazis in American History X. Don't have badasses that people look up to, instead make them look like fools. Honestly, a dumb bad guy is scarier - why do we let them keep winning!?
neutral · AI labelView post →I learned the term 'ZOG' from the movie American History X, and (extremely Obama Voice) let me be clear - It wasn't a "good" character using the term
neutral · AI labelView post →#OctoberMovieChallenge #FilmSky #MovieSky Someone sentenced to prison in a movie 1️⃣7️⃣: American History X (1998)
neutral · AI labelView post →American History X (1993) Challenging Film looking at Systemic beliefs, prejudices and their ramifications. Difficult to watch at times but Norton is excellent as usual. #FilmSky #Movies #Cinema
positive · AI labelView post →Gosling is amazing in that film. I saw it at its premiere at the film festival. I’ve watched it once since, and like American History X and Requiem for a Dream, I find it very difficult to consume, despite the undisputed greatness of the piece.
positive · AI labelView post →time for everyone to watch late 1990s movie American History X. The father in the movie keeps telling his son that affirmative action is dangerous. The son (played by Edward Norton) becomes a neo-Nazi, thanks in large part to what he heard from his father.
neutral · AI labelView post →I think of this as the American History X problem; yes, the character ends up destroyed, but Ed Norton is so cool the movie is still beloved of actual neo-Nazis.
neutral · AI labelView post →Fight Club too. And Being John Malkovich Office Space Three Kings Lebowski Fear and Loathing Pi Rushmore Boondock Saints Opposite of Sex Ronin American History X Saw all but the last four in the theater. The rest soon after. A lucky time to be friends with film nerds.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ten+ non horror movies to get to know me 🤓 Take Shelter The Lego Movie Quills The Dark Knight Rear Window Se7en Hot Fuzz American History X Tombstone The Shawshank Redemption The Big Lebowski Toy Story Requiem for a Dream
neutral · AI labelView post →Not really. In fact, I find that smaller screens increase my focus. I watched American History X on an iPod Nano. #ngl
neutral · AI labelView post →When the film American History X came out in the late 1990s, white supremacists embraced it, despite its anti-racist message. Might they do the same thing with this film? I guess we'll see.
neutral · AI labelView post →If you want absolute proof that media is just a rorschach test and people will just project whatever they want into it, just remember there's conservatives who think One Piece isn't woke and nazis who think American History X is a pro nazi movie because it makes them look "badass"
neutral · AI labelView post →Everyone's dunking on this and not without reason but it's not hard to think of, say, an ostensibly anti-war movie ending up making war look awesome. Is it the fault of the makers of American History X that some nazi fucks loved that movie? Not sure! But it's not a silly concern.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'll never forget early youtube where neo-nazis would gather around clips of the (explicitly anti nazi) Edward Norton movie American History X. They can fully sustain themselves off of slithers or just tiny segments of the truth. Zero consistency or joined up thinking required.
neutral · AI labelView post →He sure was! He was nominated for an academy award for best supporting actor for Primal Fear in 1996. It was his second movie. Then two years later he was nominated for an academy award for best actor for American History X. #HATM
neutral · AI labelView post →These guys all look like like the were extras in the movie "American History X".
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