Many years ago, when I was in secondary school, our teacher showed us a film called the Wave. Many of you may have heard of it, or even seen it.
It's about a school teacher who more or less unwittingly manages to create a fascistoid movement out of his students, in an attempt to demonstrate just how a totalitarian regime arises.
It has recently been remade as Die Welle (2008), but assumptuous as I am, I hazard a guess that the original still packs enough heat to be worth your attention. Despite being from 1981.
The film is even based on a real event. How much of it is dramatized I don't really know. Regardless it's a decent exploration of the dynamics of a totalitarian movement. Expecially its analysis of how the movement can supplant other needs for some people, who otherwise wouldn't fit in. (You can read more about the real life experiment at wikipedia.
Enough yabbering. It's not very long, and you really should take the fifty or so minutes it takes to watch it. Here it is, in all its glory, courtesy of Youtube:
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