Ian MacKaye Movies

  • 2026
    Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt

    Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt

    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
  • 2014
    Breadcrumb Trail

    Breadcrumb Trail

    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
  • 1999
    Instrument

    Instrument

    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...

    Instrument
  • 2018
    Bad Reputation

    Bad Reputation

    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...

    Bad Reputation
  • 2007
    Punk's Not Dead

    Punk's Not Dead

    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,...

    Punk's Not Dead
  • 2006
    American Hardcore

    American Hardcore

    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...

    American Hardcore
  • 2012
    We Who Wait: The Adverts & TV Smith

    We Who Wait: The Adverts & TV Smith

    We Who Wait: The Adverts & TV Smith

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

    We Who Wait: The Adverts & TV Smith
  • 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

    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
  • 2017
    Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk

    Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk

    Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk

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    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...

    Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk
  • 1983
    Minor Threat

    Minor Threat

    Minor Threat

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    The function of both popular and underground music in contemporary culture has long been a point of inquiry for Graham in his analyses of the social...

    Minor Threat
  • 2021
    What Drives Us

    What Drives Us

    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....

    What Drives Us
  • 2012
    Bones Brigade: An Autobiography

    Bones Brigade: An Autobiography

    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...

    Bones Brigade: An Autobiography
  • 2017
    The Outhouse: The Film 1985-1997

    The Outhouse: The Film 1985-1997

    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...

    The Outhouse: The Film 1985-1997
  • 2024
    Something Better Change

    Something Better Change

    Something Better Change

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    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...

    Something Better Change
  • 2017
    L7: Pretend We're Dead

    L7: Pretend We're Dead

    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
  • 2023
    Punk Rock Vegan Movie

    Punk Rock Vegan Movie

    Punk Rock Vegan Movie

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

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

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

    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...

    Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
  • 2018
    Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records

    Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records

    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
  • 2019
    The Tony Alva Story

    The Tony Alva Story

    The Tony Alva Story

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

    The Tony Alva Story
  • 2011
    Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind

    Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind

    Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind

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

    Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind