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The Wave is a made-for-TV movie directed by Alex Grasshoff, based on The Third Wave experiment put on by teacher Ron Jones to explain to his students how the German populace could accept the actions of the Nazi regime. [1] It debuted October 4, 1981, and aired again almost two years later as an ABC Afterschool Special.
The Wave is a 1981 young adult novel by Todd Strasser under the pen name Morton Rhue (though it has been reprinted under Todd Strasser's real name). It is a novelization of a teleplay by Johnny Dawkins for the movie The Wave, a fictionalized account of the "Third Wave" teaching experiment by Ron Jones that took place in an Ellwood P. Cubberley High School history class in Palo Alto, California.
Ron Jones (born 1941) is an American writer and formerly a teacher in Palo Alto, California.He is best known for his classroom exercise called "The Third Wave" and the book he wrote about the event, which inspired the made-for-TV movie The Wave and other works, including a theatrical film in 2008.
While many futuristic movies from the 1980s depicted scenarios that have not come to pass 40 years later, many offered surprisingly accurate glimpses into the future.
The Wave, by Tom Chaplin, 2016, and a song from the album; The Wave, a 2018 album by R3hab "The Wave" (Sneakbo song), 2011 "The Wave" (Miike Snow song), 2012 "The Wave", a song by Blake Shelton from the 2017 album Texoma Shore "The Wave", a 2018 single by Lion Babe; The Wave, a movement of post-hardcore and emo bands in the late 2000s and 2010s
The Wave is not the only movie to convert a social experiment conducted in the United States into a fictionalized plot. The Stanford prison experiment of 1971 was adapted for the 2001 production Das Experiment by Oliver Hirschbiegel, and the 2015 production directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez , The Stanford Prison Experiment .
Circle of Power (1981) – thriller drama film based on the nonfiction book The Pit: A Group Encounter Defiled concerning Mind Dynamics (a.k.a. Leadership Dynamics and Holiday Magic) [78] Death Hunt (1981) – Western action film depicting a fictionalized account of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) pursuit of a man named Albert Johnson [79]
The Wave is a 2019 American science fiction thriller film directed by Gille Klabin and distributed by Epic Pictures. Plot. Frank, an insurance lawyer, finds ...