American History X (Director's Cut; 1998)

American History X is a 1998 Drama film directed by Tony Kaye. It stars Edward Norton as a Nazi skinhead that makes a remarkable transformation after 2 years in prison. It is often adored for its accurate portrayal of racism and white power gangs. It has one of the highest ratings on IMDB and continues to wow audiences new and old.

The surviving film was actually stollen from the director's hands by both New Line Cinema (the film

's distributor) and Edward Norton (who is a notoriously difficult actor to deal with). Several squabbles over what scenes should stay and what order they should go in resulted in an extremely lengthy post-production process. Norton ultimately

ended up editing the film to give himself more screentime, something Kaye believes "ruined" the film. T

here is little information available towards what exactly was different.

It is widely believed that Norton destroyed many of the master copies of the deleted scenes. To this day, only and handful of scenes were featured on the movie's DVD or leaked onto the internet. Kaye did eventually release a documentary about the struggle the film had, but even that movie has had limited screenings. To this day, it is unknown exactly how many more scenes have yet to be released, if any.