The Wave

Ben Ross (Bruce Davison) is a high school history teacher who cannot get his students to understand how ordinary Germans went along with the Nazis. So he runs a classroom experiment, handing out rules about posture, discipline and obedience to see how far his students will follow. Alexander Grasshoff tells it as a made-for-TV drama, with Lauree (Lori Lethin) and David (John Putch) among the students who sit up straighter at their desks.