Ian MacKaye Movies

The ongoing relationship between the worlds of punk rock and animal rights and how the music became a breeding ground for vegan activism.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Moby

The band Fugazi is documented over a period of more than ten years (1987-1998) through performance footage and interviews with the band and their...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ian MacKaye

Inspired by Steven Blush's book "American Hardcore: A tribal history" Paul Rachman's feature documentary debut is a chronicle of the underground...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Henry Rollins

A real time journey witnessing the rise, fall, and ultimate redemption of the fierce feminist pioneers of American grunge punk: L7.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Donita Sparks

Guerilla filmmaker Brendan Toller unleashes I NEED THAT RECORD! THE DEATH (OR POSSIBLE SURVIVAL) OF THE INDEPENDENT RECORD STORE, "an elegy for a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Glenn Branca

Bad Brains are one of the most important and influential American bands still working today. They melded punk and reggae into an innovative style...

Genre: Music

Cast: Michael Diamond

Documentary on doom metal band The Obsessed. Featuring members of: White Zombie, Fugazi, Pantera, Henry Rollins, L7, The Melvins and more.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Scott "Wino" Weinrich

"The DVD is a live performance of me at the National Geographic Theater in Washington DC on February 13th, 2011, when I turned fifty. Ian MacKaye...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Henry Rollins

A documentary about the singer/songwriter Vic Chesnutt

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Vic Chesnutt

Breadcrumb Trail focuses on Slint's seminal album, Spiderland, and the Louisville music scene from which the band originated.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Brian McMahan

Another State of Mind is a documentary film made in the summer of 1982 chronicling the adventure (and misadventure) of two punk bands – Social...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mike Ness

Follows the story of the groundbreaking Texas-based art-punk band founded by frontman Gibby Haynes and guitarist Paul Leary.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gibby Haynes

On the edge of the 30th anniversary of punk rock, Punk's Not Dead takes you into the sweaty underground clubs, backyard parties, recording studios,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Henry Rollins

Join Mike Vallely as he traverses the country on an epic road trip, and presents for you his in-depth philosophies on skating, past, present and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mike Vallely

A feature-length documentary chronicling early '80s punk rock band the Minutemen, from their beginnings in San Pedro, California, to their demise...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Milo Aukerman

"Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)" examines the early DIY punk scene in the Nation's Capital. It was a decade when seminal...

Genre: Music

Cast: Fred Armisen

The life and career of rock n' roll icon Joan Jett from her early years ripping it up onstage as the founder and backbone of hard-rock legends The...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joan Jett

Cassette inventor Lou Ottens digs through his past to figure out why the audiotape won't die. Rock veterans join a legion of young bands releasing...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lou Ottens

Fugazi perfoming at the Fabrik in Hamburg, Germany, on September 18 1999.

Genre: Music

Cast: Fugazi

An hour-long documentary filmed by the band, Superchunk, on its 2001 tour of Japan, Europe and the US

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mac McCaughan

A documentary film that tells the story of the origins of Riot Grrrl in the American independent music scene of the 1990s, and how this feminist...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kathleen Hanna

Punk activist collective Positive Force emerged in 1985, rising from the ashes of Revolution Summer. This feature-length film by Robin Bell...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mark Andersen

Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind visually documents the explosion of Grunge, the Seattle Sound, within the context of the...

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Cast: Jacob McMurray

A documentary about the life and career of UK singer-songwriter and Adverts frontman, TV Smith.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: T.V. Smith

When does art become obscenity? Cover Your Ears takes a close look at this question through the lens of the past 100 years of music and the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Murray Acton

White Flag : Flipside, Not Alright, Communication Breakdown G.B.H. : Gimme Fire, Wild Thing, I Am The Hunted 7 Seconds : This Is My Life, out of...

Genre: Music

Cast: Henry Rollins

Through an oral history format of in-depth interviews and archival footage, RIOT ON THE DANCE FLOOR bring to life the gritty story of City Gardens,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Henry Rollins

When six teenage boys came together as a skateboarding team in the 1980s, they reinvented not only their chosen sport but themselves too – as...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tony Alva

In the mid-1980s outside this college town, home of the Kansas Jayhawks, punk rock history was being made in the middle of a cornfield. Where the...

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Cast: Henry Rollins

A punk band from Texas whose music and persona was extreme and political and the supporters who've followed and loved them for over 35 years.

Genre: Music

Cast: Gary Floyd

YOU CAN COLOR OUTSIDE THE LINES, THE BIG BOYS tells the true story of the beloved funk/punk band from Austin, Texas. Go beyond Austin's city limits...

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Cast: Randy "Biscuit" Turner

Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk spans over 30 years of the California Bay Area’s punk music history with a central focus on the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Iggy Pop

The true story of punks, queers, & criminals on a ride with two men who accidentally changed music along the way.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Trent Reznor

Records Collecting Dust II focuses on the East Coast cities of Boston, New York and Washington DC, and includes in depth interviews with twenty eight...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ian MacKaye

Minor Threat played one of its last shows at Washington DC's 930 Club in June of 1983; they would only play once more in DC. Two years later, the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Ian MacKaye

'Parallel Planes' is a documentary film portraying 12 American avant-garde & punk-rock musicians. It is a journey between genres, an essay on free...

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Cast: Michael Gira

This documentary features interviews with Ian MacKaye (Fugazi), J Mascis (Dinosaur jr.), John John Jesse (Demonic Erotic painter), Jim Rose (Jim Rose...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael W. Dean

An in-depth exploration of a seminal moment in DC music history (circa 1976 to 1984) and the rise of harDCore. The film is made up of a mix of rare...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Cynthia Connolly

Starting with its inception in 1986, the all-ages nonprofit punk venue at 924 Gilman St. in Berkeley, Calif., was a mainstay of a thriving music...

Genre: Music

Cast: Billie Joe Armstrong

"Dope, Hookers and Pavement" is a lively and unfiltered account of the early days of the Detroit hardcore punk scene, circa 1981-82, in the notorious...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Brannon

The stories of some of the biggest artists in music, recalling the romance and adventure, as well as the idiocy and chaos, of their time on the road....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jennifer Finch

Dither: The D.I.Y. Sound is not your conventional punk rock documentary. In this documentary we explore the ideologies created by cornerstones of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ian MacKaye

Largely ignored and left to their own devices, a group of unassuming teenagers in late 80s and early 90s Sioux Falls, South Dakota created their own...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ian MacKaye

62-years-old Alva, the oldest professional, skateboarder in the world, is considered by many to be the godfather of modern day skateboarding....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tony Alva

Rare multicam concert done in protest against the Gulf War

Genre: Music

Cast: Ian MacKaye

To commemorate the 20 years that have passed since DC-based post-hardcore band Fugazi's last live appearance (November 4, 2002, at the Forum in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ian MacKaye

These days, there’s a lot of talk about outsiders in politics, but very few people can claim outsider status like Joe Keithley, punk legend...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joe Keithley

Hardcore punk legend Ian MacKaye (Fugazi, Minor Threat) discusses memorable experiences from the many live shows he’s played.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ian MacKaye