Ron Jones

A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily the masses can become manipulated.

A fact-based story, John Larroquette plays a hotshot executive that ends up in court over a certain charge. He is sentenced to community service. He is assigned to coach a basketball team of mentally handicapped citizens. At first, he is reluctant and thinks selfishly of his own needs. Later on, he finds the real meaning of life which is helping others.

A teacher conducts an experiment in an American high school where students learn how easy it is to be seduced by the same social forces which led to the horrors of Nazi Germany.

An unemployed teacher becomes a counselor at a summer camp for severely disabled children.

The story of Ron Jones 'experiment went around the world: Morton Rhue's novel "The Wave", which is based on Jones' experiment, became a bestseller and standard work that has been a must-read for generations in numerous schools around the world.