In 1939 Hamburg, Germany, a group of teenagers express their rebellion against Adolph Hitler’s Nazi regime through their affection for American swing music, British fashion, and Harlem slang. American and British big-band jazz records are among those banned by the Fuhrer, but the young men secretly get together with their friends to listen and dance to the music.

• Swing Kids
• Robert Sean Leonard
• Christian Bale
• Frank Whaley
• Thomas Carter