- Mark Hancock is Associate Producer and appears in two award-winning documentaries about "The Wave" social experiment in extremism, first Lesson Plan (2010); and then The Invisible Line (2019) with History Channel, Germany. In addition, he worked with and appeared in the German History Channel film Total Control - Im Bann der Seelenfänger (2018). Mark also supports other film projects with contemporary cultural themes, along with emerging filmmakers.
Mark was a student at Cubberley High School in California in the original 1967 history class experiment in fascism called "The Third Wave" (now known simply as "The Wave" and "Die Welle"), taught by Ron Jones. With six movies and a best-selling book based on this class (as well as plays and musicals), the Wave story is used in classrooms around the world to show students the elements, appeal and dangers of extremism. As the Wave story historian, Mark speaks at film festivals, schools, theater productions and organizations worldwide. Mark is a PhD Candidate in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Gratz College; and holds a Master's in Nonprofit Leadership from Seattle University, and BA in Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Mark Hancock
- Mark is a FAA licensed hot air balloon pilot, having trained under Gordon Hall who was a balloon pilot in Rat Race (2001).
- In 1978 Mark lived in Marina del Rey, upstairs above the CHiPs TV show apartment. Mark's car is in the background of the initial car theft scene in Episode 13 of Season 2 Down Time (1978) (at 2:45), which he watched them film before going to work that morning.
- Mark appears briefly in the David Gilmour: Remember That Night (2007) DVD tour documentary "Breaking Bread, Drinking Wine," while walking in front of the audience in pouring rain at the start of Piazza San Marco show in Venice, Italy on 12 August 2006.
- Mark anchors the far left of a crowd shot in the Hail Columbia! (1982) documentary, during the landing sequence of the first flight of the Space Shuttle, at Edwards Air Force Base, California on 14 April 1981 (IMAX theater version).
- Mark's photograph "Electric Phil" was used as the cover and insert art for the 2004 CD titled "6pm" by guitarist Phil Manzanera (of Roxy Music).
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