Movies: Ian MacKaye

  • 2018
    Bad Reputation

    Bad Reputation (2018)

    Bad Reputation

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    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 Runaways, to her long time collaboration with Kenny Laguna as Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, and her endu...

    Bad Reputation
  • 2006
    American Hardcore

    American Hardcore (2006)

    American Hardcore

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    Inspired by Steven Blush's book "American Hardcore: A tribal history" Paul Rachman's feature documentary debut is a chronicle of the underground hardcore punk years from 1979 to 1986. Interviews and rare live footage from artists such as Black Flag, ...

    American Hardcore
  • 2016
    Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape

    Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape (2016)

    Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape

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    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 music on tape to push Lou along on his journey to remember....

    Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
  • 2018
    Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records

    Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records (2018)

    Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records

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

    Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records
  • 2015
    Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)

    Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90) (2015)

    Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)

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    "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 bands like Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Government Issue, Scream, Void, Faith, Rites of Spring, Marginal M...

    Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
  • 2005
    We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen

    We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (2005)

    We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen

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    A feature-length documentary chronicling early '80s punk rock band the Minutemen, from their beginnings in San Pedro, California, to their demise after the death of singer D. Boon in 1985....

    We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
  • 1969
    Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt

    Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt (1969)

    Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt

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

    Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
  • 2012
    Bad Brains: A Band in DC

    Bad Brains: A Band in DC (2012)

    Bad Brains: A Band in DC

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    Bad Brains are one of the most important and influential American bands still working today. They melded punk and reggae into an innovative style that has yet to be copied. Their impact and influence can be heard in groups like Beastie Boys, No Doubt...

    Bad Brains: A Band in DC
  • 2021
    What Drives Us

    What Drives Us (2021)

    What Drives Us

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    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. While the world has changed, the custom has not changed. There is no other way to know whether you c...

    What Drives Us
  • 2007
    924 Gilman Street

    924 Gilman Street (2007)

    924 Gilman Street

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    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 scene. In this punk-tastic documentary, filmmaker Jack Curran takes a loving look at the historic club. C...

    924 Gilman Street
  • 2008
    I Need That Record!

    I Need That Record! (2008)

    I Need That Record!

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    Guerilla filmmaker Brendan Toller unleashes I NEED THAT RECORD! THE DEATH (OR POSSIBLE SURVIVAL) OF THE INDEPENDENT RECORD STORE, "an elegy for a vanishing subculture...a lively, bittersweet film that examines - with caustic humor, brutal candor, and...

    I Need That Record!
  • 2012
    Bones Brigade: An Autobiography

    Bones Brigade: An Autobiography (2012)

    Bones Brigade: An Autobiography

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    When six teenage boys came together as a skateboarding team in the 1980s, they reinvented not only their chosen sport but themselves too – as they evolved from insecure outsiders to the most influential athletes in the field....

    Bones Brigade: An Autobiography
  • 2007
    Punk's Not Dead

    Punk's Not Dead (2007)

    Punk's Not Dead

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    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, shopping malls and stadiums where punk rock music and culture continue to thrive....

    Punk's Not Dead
  • 2016
    What Doesn’t Kill Me: The Life and Music of Vic Chesnutt

    What Doesn’t Kill Me: The Life and Music of Vic Chesnutt (2016)

    What Doesn’t Kill Me: The Life and Music of Vic Chesnutt

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    A documentary about the singer/songwriter Vic Chesnutt...

    What Doesn’t Kill Me: The Life and Music of Vic Chesnutt
  • 1999
    Instrument

    Instrument (1999)

    Instrument

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    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 fans. Director Jem Cohen's relationship with band member Ian MacKaye extends back to the 1970s when the...

    Instrument
  • 2017
    The Outhouse The Film 1985-1997

    The Outhouse The Film 1985-1997 (2017)

    The Outhouse The Film 1985-1997

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    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 pavement turned to gravel, in a small, primitive cinder block building, bands like Fugazi, the Melvins, ...

    The Outhouse The Film 1985-1997
  • 2014
    Breadcrumb Trail

    Breadcrumb Trail (2014)

    Breadcrumb Trail

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

    Breadcrumb Trail
  • 2002
    D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist

    D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist (2002)

    D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist

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    This documentary features interviews with Ian MacKaye (Fugazi), J Mascis (Dinosaur jr.), John John Jesse (Demonic Erotic painter), Jim Rose (Jim Rose Sideshow), Jim Thirwell (Foetus), Lydia Lunch, Mike Watt (Minutemen), Richard Kern (Filmmaker), Ron ...

    D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
  • 1984
    Another State of Mind

    Another State of Mind (1984)

    Another State of Mind

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    Another State of Mind is a documentary film made in the summer of 1982 chronicling the adventure (and misadventure) of two punk bands – Social Distortion and Youth Brigade – as they embark on their first international tour. Along the way they meet up...

    Another State of Mind
  • 2017
    L7: Pretend We're Dead

    L7: Pretend We're Dead (2017)

    L7: Pretend We're Dead

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

    L7: Pretend We're Dead