Le film raconte l'histoire vraie du skinhead américain Bryon Widner, un néo-nazi appartenant à un groupuscule ultra-violent et xénophobe, qui fut sur la liste des personnes les plus recherchées par le FBI. Il change de vie après avoir rencontré Julie, dont il tombe fou amoureux, mais son passé revient à la surface, révélé par ses tatouages recouvrant son visage et son corps...
Le film raconte, sur une période de 19 ans (de 1994 à 2013), l'histoire de Marco (Alban Lenoir) et de ses acolytes, Braguette (Samuel Jouy), Grand-Guy (Paul Hamy) et Marvin (Olivier Chenille). Ils sont ce que l'on appelle des skinheads et passent leurs journées à cogner des noirs et des arabes, à se battre contre des punks et des redskins, et à coller des affiches de l'extrême-droite. Mais peu à peu, au fil des années, Marco se remet en question et décide de se repentir, de devenir quelqu'un de bien et d'abandonner cette haine et ce mépris. On va alors suivre le parcours d'un homme essayant par tous les moyens d'abandonner la colère, la violence et la bêtise qui le rongent pendant qu'autour de lui, à l'inverse, la société se radicalise de plus en plus et plusieurs personnes de son entourage, notamment sa petite amie et un de ses amis, tous deux décidés à garder leurs idéaux racistes, xénophobes, islamophobes, homophobes..., ne le reconnaissent plus.
Marek, dix-huit ans, n'a pas d'ami à part son chien de garde. Un jour, alors qu'il traîne avec une bande de skinheads, il découvre un terrible secret à propos de son ami.
The film begins showing Marisa (Alina Levshin) dying on a cold shore somewhere in Germany. She and her friend Svenja (Jella Haase), who is with her, remember how it came to this. The film follows the journey of the two girls as they move into and out of a neonazi group.
In 1983, 12-year-old Shaun gets into a fight at school after a classmate makes an offensive joke about his father, who died in the Falklands War. On his way home, Shaun comes across a gang of young skinheads led by Woody, who feels sympathy for Shaun and invites him to join the group. They accept Shaun as a member, and he finds a big brother in Woody, while developing a romance with Smell, an older girl who dresses in a new wave style.
Ce documentaire parle du mouvement skinhead d'extrême droite. Le film retrace, grâce à des témoignages, les différents aspects du mouvement extrémiste. Il explique notamment comment le mouvement recrute de nouveaux membres et en démontre sans retenue les principales idées.
Daniel Balint is a former Jewish yeshiva student, brilliant but troubled, who is now a fanatically violent Neo-Nazi in New York in his early 20s. As a child, he often challenged his teachers with unorthodox interpretations of scripture. He once argued that the Binding of Isaac was not about Abraham's faith but God's power: that God did not want Abraham to accomplish a particular task but instead asks unquestioning obedience, which Abraham refuses to give. He concluded that God is a bully.
Danny Vinyard (Edward Furlong), a high school student and budding neo-Nazi in Venice Beach, California, receives an assignment from Mr. Murray (Elliott Gould), his history teacher, to write a paper on "any book which relates to the struggle for human rights". Knowing Murray is Jewish, Danny writes his paper on Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf. Murray attempts to get Danny expelled for doing this, but Principal Dr. Bob Sweeney (Avery Brooks) — who is black — refuses, instead informing Danny that he will study history and current events under Sweeney, and that the class will be called "American History X". Danny's first assignment is to prepare a paper on his brother Derek (Edward Norton), a former neo-Nazi leader who has just been released from prison after serving three years for voluntary manslaughter. Danny is warned that failing to submit the paper the next morning will result in his expulsion. The rest of the film alternates between a series of vignettes from Danny and Derek's shared past (distinguished by being shown in black and white), and present day events (shown in color).
Une nuit à Los Angeles, deux skinheads croisent Marjoe, un jeune homosexuel de 15 ans. Ils décident de l'amener de force à leur quartier général où il sera passé à tabac par toute la bande, puis abandonné nu sur un trottoir. Sa mère, Maggie, qui refuse de laisser le crime impuni, va reprendre contact avec son ex-mari, Joe, un ancien flic maintenant ivrogne qui s'est installé au Mexique, afin de venger leur fils.
Set in a post-perestroika, post-Soviet Moscow, "Luna Park" follows the main character Andrei Leonov (Andrei Guntin) in his struggles to figure out who he is. At the beginning of the film, we see him as a young antisemitic skinhead bodybuilding leader of a group called "The Cleaners" who are set on purging Russia of anyone they deem unsuitable to the Russian bloodline, including, Jews, homosexuals, foreigners and mentally challenged individuals. The opening scene depicts a crowd of skinheads waving Russian flags and fighting a gang of bikers who they believed have succumbed to western influence and ideology. "The Cleaners" live in Luna Park, an amusement park, with wild roller coasters, and distorting mirrors and regularly head out into Moscow to cause chaos and destruction.
A gang of violent neo-Nazis from Footscray, Victoria, Australia attack two Vietnamese Australian teenagers, who are friends of Tiger (Tony Lee) in a subway tunnel at Footscray Station (filmed at Richmond Station). The gang is led by Hando (Russell Crowe) and his friend and second in command, Davey (Daniel Pollock). They meet drug addict Gabrielle (Jacqueline McKenzie) the day after her sexually abusive, highly-affluent father Martin (Alex Scott), has her junkie boyfriend beaten up. However, Gabrielle starts a romantic association with Hando.
Le film constitue une « étude d'un point de vue sentimental de l'état du monde à une période donnée » selon Mike Leigh lui-même. La période en question est le thatchérisme, caractérisé par le chômage de masse. Le film mêle en permanence le tragique au comique.