shaman1969 I have just finished watching this movie on Google video. It was recommended to me by a friend of mine.My friend would not tell me what it was about but he said I should watch it because its a really interesting program. After watching I must say that I was greatly impressed.The Wave is a frightening study of group psychology.It was apparently based on an actual event in a high school in California over a one week period in April 1967.It is about a history teacher who conducts a psychological experiment on his students who are studying Nazi Germany.The movie delivers a very powerful message.It shows how easily people can be brain washed under the right conditions and if the right techniques are used.Nazi Germany was over 60 years ago but what this program shows is how easily the events that took place in Nazi Germany could be repeated.What makes it all the more frightening is that in the real case study the teacher had virtually the whole class brain washed inside of a week.A very thought provoking program that should definitely be shown in schools.

Edmund_Dantes I don't know who the summary quote is from, but it is true. This is the message in Shakespeare's Julius Caeser, "I come not to praise Brutus, but to bury him." "The Wave" is based on a true experiment in a California high school. Most commentators missed that even the teacher was surprised at how well it worked. There is something in the human psyche that allows us to be manipulated. I think that persons who criticize the movie miss the point. I was very impressed and interested on the truism demonstrated in the story. People wonder how persons could follow Hitler or Stalin or their like and this movie shows just how easy it is to dupe the public. This is a very important message in a democracy.

MrInitialMan I saw this movie in high school. By then, the movie was more than 15 years old.Acting might not have been the greatest, but I didn't really notice. It wasn't unbearably overacted, anyways.Some have mentioned the movie is dated, but hey, it's 1981. 26 years old at the time of writing. Star Trek is dated, but it's still a great show.The plot. Well, kids want to know how people got caught up in Nazism, and the teacher, having difficulty explaining, decides to demonstrate to them by creating an atmosphere of order and discipline.The impact: Brrrrrr! This was down-right chiller, since when one watched it, one realized that it could so easily happen anywhere, as it was perfectly true to simple human nature. One of the scariest movies I have ever seen, and not a masked madman in sight.

Van_Hagar_3000 This may be the second worst TV movie ever made, only Overdrawn at the Memory Bank maybe worse but that at least had Raul Julia. But this is one bad, predictable and cheesy movie that I was forced to watch in school. Firstly it is incredibly overacted and all the performers were way over the top it became funny. Secondly you knew that it was going to be some moral lesson about Nazism since that's how it started and once they went to meet "the leader", it would turn out to be Hitler. Finally, it was incredibly cheesy, they were completely oblivious that it was exactly like the Nazi party. Even with the armbands, symbol, salute, creed, signs, followers only two people were able to figure out that it was like the Nazis. Hell if they started killing Jewish people I don't think they would have figured it out. Someone behind me kept commenting 'this doesn't happen in the real world' and she was damn sure right. Back in the early eighties this movie may have worked but today it's so incredibly dated it becomes pretty bad but laughably funny like a Plan 9 from Outer Space. The whole entire class ridiculed the movie but not very well. The movie would only be good with a guy named Mike or Joel and two robots in the bottom right corner.