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American History X is a 1998 American crime drama film directed by Tony Kaye (in his feature directorial debut) and written by David McKenna.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.
Manisha Sinha is an Indian-born American historian, and the Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. [1] She is the author of The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition (2016), which won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize. [2] and, most recently The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 ...
The 1998 film American History X is loosely inspired by Meeink's life in numerous ways. [7] The film's main character, Derek, played by Edward Norton, becomes a skinhead after his father is killed by black drug dealers, and helps start a Neo-Nazi gang in Los Angeles. Like Meeink, the character goes to prison for 3 years for the murder of two ...
In 1998’s “American History X,” Norton’s Derek Vinyard character was based, in part, on Meeink’s road to redemption as he began to ditch his racist views after kindling friendships with ...
Ethan L. Suplee (/ s uː ˈ p l iː /; [1] born May 25, 1976) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the films American History X, Blow, Remember the Titans, John Q, The Wolf of Wall Street, Cold Mountain, Without a Paddle, Unstoppable, and several of Kevin Smith's films as well as Frankie in Boy Meets World and Randy Hickey in My Name Is Earl.
William Russ (born October 20, 1950) is an American actor and television director. He played Alan Matthews on the sitcom Boy Meets World (1993–2000) and appeared in the television series Wiseguy, the soap operas Another World and The Young and the Restless and the feature films The Right Stuff (1983), Pastime (1990) and American History X (1998).
Gunasena Galappatty (born June 7, 1927, in Dikwella in Matara, Sri Lanka) was a Sri Lankan dramatist, director, producer, and Sinhala radio play writer regarded as the pioneer of suspense drama in Sri Lanka. [1]
Sri Lanka is one of over one-hundred countries which have submitted films for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. [nb 1] The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is handed out annually by the United States Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue.