Oct 24, 2020 | Event, Film, News
The United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF) screened “The Invisible Line” documentary about the Wave class experiment in fascism, on 10/24/20. The film was written and produced by Emanuel Rotstein, of the History Channel in Germany. That evening...
May 6, 2020 | Event, Film, News
May 6-24, 2020, you can view the new Third Wave documentary “The Invisible Line” streaming worldwide online at DOK.fest Munich Film Festival (German or English). Interviews with the original teacher Ron Jones, his wife, and seven students. The History Channel and...
Dec 10, 2019 | Event, Film, News
The new Wave documentary “The Invisible Line” had its world premiere press event in Munich, Germany, on December 10, 2019. Third Wave students Debbie Berry and Mark Hancock joined A&E/History Channel producer Emanuel Rotstein in a panel discussion and...
Aug 10, 2019 | Event, Film, Organization
Congregation Beth Am in Palo Alto, California, showed the Wave documentary film “Lesson Plan” as part of their Tisha B’Av event, and hosted Mark Hancock for a Q&A discussion after the screening.
Jul 20, 2019 | Event, Film, School
Mark screened the Wave documentary “Lesson Plan” followed by a Q&A session with 200 students at Dulwich College in London (his second visit to DC). The assembly was held in the Great Hall, which was used for the ending scene speech in the movie...
Apr 16, 2019 | Event, Film, Organization
Mark screened the Third Wave documentary “Lesson Plan” at the CANDLES Holocaust Museum on April 16, 2019, followed by audience Q&A; and visited with school groups at the Museum earlier that day. Mark traveled to Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland with...
Nov 12, 2018 | Event, Film, School
On November 12, 2018, Mark was the guest of the World Life Center at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. After a public screening of the documentary “Lesson Plan” there was a Q&A session with Mark and the audience.
Jun 23, 2018 | Event, Theater
Mark attended the Wave play production by the Orna Porat Children’s Theater held at the Tel Aviv Art Museum theater on June 23, 2018, and did a Q&A session with the audience of 400 thereafter. He also did media support for the show, including a live TV...
Oct 7, 2017 | Event, Organization, School
Mark and teacher Tamara Bunnell (The Northwest School) did a workshop session about The Wave for teachers at the fall conference of the Washington State Council for the Social Studies (WSCSS) on October 7, 2017. Mark also did a tabletop display of The Wave at the...
Mar 22, 2017 | Event, Film, Organization
Mark joined teacher Ron Jones and fellow Third Wave students Phil Neel and Jo Ann Wood Gasaway at the Third Wave anniversary event at the Cubberley High School theater, on March 22, 2017. We screened our documentary film “Lesson Plan” to a sold-out audience of 300,...
Feb 18, 2015 | Event, Theater
Mark attended and supported the play “La Ola” at the national theater in Madrid, Spain from February 18-24, 2015 (Centro Dramatico Nacional). Activities included attending several performances, a special panel discussion night with audience Q&A, and...
Feb 12, 2015 | Event, Film, School
University of Victoria in Canada held a Holocaust education day for local high schools on February 12, 2015. Mark screened the Wave documentary film “Lesson Plan” in the morning, followed by a Q&A discussion with professors and the students. The event...
Nov 13, 2014 | Event, Organization, Theater
Mark attended the play “The Wave” by Logan (Jon) Kovach at the Cincinnati National Underground Railroad Freedom Center theater on November 13, 2014, and they held a Q&A session with the audience afterwards. Later that day Mark did a Wave presentation...
May 8, 2013 | Event, Organization, School
Mark presented his Wave talk Leaders & Followers to the Leadership Institute of South Puget Sound on May 8, 2013, followed by discussion with the students in the program. Mark is a 1999 graduate of the Institute. Link:...
Oct 21, 2012 | Event, Film, Organization
Original Wave teacher Ron Jones and students Philip Neel and Mark Hancock supported the screening of the Wave documentary “Lesson Plan” at Har Zion Temple in Penn Valley, PA on 10/21/12. A Q&A session with the audience of 500 attendees followed.
May 8, 2012 | Event, Film, Organization
On May 8, 2012, Alyssa Reit and Mark Hancock screened the Wave documentary film “Lesson Plan” at the United Nations, at a luncheon held by the UN Interagency Framework Team for Preventive Action, and hosted by the UNDP Bureau for Crisis Prevention and...
Feb 26, 2011 | Event, Film
The Third Wave documentary film “Lesson Plan” had its San Francisco debut on 2/26/11, followed by a panel discussion with Dr. Philip Zimbardo (creator Stanford Prison Experiment), original Wave teacher Ron Jones, and Wave students Philip Neel and Mark...
Apr 19, 2010 | Event, Film, Organization, School
Ron Jones and Mark presented the Wave documentary film “Lesson Plan” at the California Film Institute on April 19, 2010, to students in their “A Place in the World” program. Mark returned on May 1, 2013 for another Wave presentation to students...
Jan 18, 2008 | Event, Film
Original Third Wave teacher Ron Jones and Wave students Philip Neel and Mark Hancock attended the world premiere of the German film “Die Welle” (The Wave) at the Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2008.