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American History X is a 1998 American drama film directed by Tony Kaye and starring Edward Norton and Edward Furlong. It was distributed by New Line Cinema.

The film tells the story of two brothers, Derek Vinyard (Norton) and Daniel "Danny" Vinyard (Furlong) of Venice Beach in Los Angeles, California. Both are intelligent and charismatic students. Their father, a firefighter, is murdered by a black drug dealer while trying to extinguish a fire in a South Central neighborhood of Los Angeles, and Derek is drawn into the neo-Nazi movement. Derek brutally kills two black gang members whom he catches in the act of breaking into the truck left to him by his father, and is sentenced to three years in prison for voluntary manslaughter. The story shows how Danny is influenced by his older brother's actions and ideology and how Derek, now radically changed by his experience in incarceration, which includes violent rape by white neo-nazi inmates (because of a friendly relationship with a black inmate), tries to prevent his brother from going down the same path as he did. The film is told in the style of nonlinear narrative.

Directed by Tony Kaye
Produced by John Morrissey
Written by David McKenna
Narrated by Edward Furlong
Edward Norton
Starring Edward Norton
Edward Furlong
Fairuza Balk
Stacy Keach
Elliott Gould
Avery Brooks
Beverly D'Angelo
Music by Anne Dudley
Cinematography Tony Kaye
Editing by Gerald B. Greenberg
Alan Heim
Distributed by New Line Cinema
Release date(s) October 30, 1998
Running time 119 minutes
Country United States
Language English

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