Derek is visited in the hospital wing by Sweeney, with whom he pleads for help to get out of prison. He ultimately abandons the Aryan Brotherhood, who beat and rape him in the shower in retaliation. He loses his belief further when his friends in the D.O.C. Derek becomes disillusioned by prison gang politics he believes in the ideology but disapproves of the gang's dealings with non-white gangs and involvement in narcotics dealing, thinking that the members are only using the philosophy of white supremacy out of convenience. In prison, Derek joins the Aryan Brotherhood and befriends a black inmate named Lamont. He is arrested and sentenced to three years in the California Institution for Men for voluntary manslaughter.
When Danny alerts Derek to the crime, Derek shoots two of the men, killing one and wounding the other, before curb stomping the wounded man. That night, the same group of Crips that Derek had beaten in the basketball game earlier attempt to steal his truck. Derek assaults his sister Davina and openly berates Murray, and Doris tells Derek to leave home. Derek organizes an attack on a supermarket employing illegal Mexican immigrants.ĭerek's mother Doris invites Murray, her boyfriend, for dinner where an argument about Rodney King and the 1992 Los Angeles riots occurs. A skilled basketball player, Derek is dragged into a game against several Crips, winning control of the local ball courts. High-profile neo-Nazi Cameron Alexander becomes Derek's mentor and they form their own violent white supremacist gang called the Disciples of Christ (D.O.C.) in Venice Beach. Immediately after his death, Derek erupts in a racially motivated tirade in a televised interview. Years earlier, Danny and Derek's father, a firefighter, was shot and killed by a black narcotics dealer while putting out a fire at their home. Danny's first assignment is a paper on his older brother Derek, a past student of Sweeney's and former neo-Nazi leader released from prison that day. Bob Sweeney tells Danny that he will study history through current events or be expelled, calling their class American History X. African-American principal and outreach worker Dr.
High school student Danny Vinyard antagonizes his Jewish history teacher Murray by choosing to write a civil rights essay on Mein Kampf.
A follow-up, African History Y, with Kaye returning as director and starring Djimon Hounsou, was in active development as of 2020. The film has also been used for educational purposes in the United States and in other countries. Norton received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. American History X was critically praised, with Norton and Furlong's performances and the film's message drawing acclaim. The final version was longer than Kaye intended, which resulted in him publicly disowning the film, thus negatively affecting his directing career.ĭistributed by New Line Cinema, the film was released in the United States on October 30, 1998, grossing $23.9 million, against a $20 million budget. Before the film's release, Kaye and the film studio were in disagreements about the final cut of the film. Budgeted at $20 million, filming took place in 1997. American History X was Kaye's first directorial role in a feature film. He sold the script to New Line Cinema, which was impressed by the writing. McKenna wrote the script based on his own childhood and experiences of growing up in San Diego. The supporting cast includes Fairuza Balk, Stacy Keach, Elliott Gould, Avery Brooks, Ethan Suplee and Beverly D'Angelo. The older brother (Norton) serves three years in prison for voluntary manslaughter, is rehabilitated during this time, and then tries to prevent his brother (Furlong) from being indoctrinated further. The film stars Edward Norton and Edward Furlong as two brothers from Los Angeles who are involved in the white power skinhead and neo-Nazi movements. American History X is a 1998 American crime drama film directed by Tony Kaye (in his feature directorial debut) and written by David McKenna.
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