Films for Class
- Click here to access punk documentaries for INART 125 – Make sure to login to the PSU Media Space/Kaltura website in order to access the films.
Other Punk Documentary Films
What follows is an incredible list of documentary films that was put together by Raphael Jose Martinez, who is a Chicago-based writer, bookseller, former punk musician, and co-host of the Generation Splice podcast. Films are organized into three categories.
PUNK SCENES & HISTORIES:
- Turn It Around (East Bay)
- You Weren’t There (Chicago)
- Brass Tacks (Manchester 77)
- Italian Punk Hardcore
- Jyväskylän Meininki (Jyvaskyla, Finland)
- CBGBs (New York 78):
- No Wave: Underground 80s (NY, Berlin)
- Surfpunks LA (’81)
- Another State of Mind
- Mas Alla de los Gritos/Beyond the Screams (US Latino punk ’90s)
- Step Up and Be Vocal (Queer punk ’01)
- A Unique Punk Landscape (Montreal ’10s)
- Punk in Nederland (Netherlands ’76-’91, no subs)
- The Year of Punk (London ’78)
- Pank: Origenes de Punk en Chile (Chilean punk history)
- La Escena Punk en Mexico (Mexican punks interviewed ’94, no subs)
- The Slog Movie (LA ’82)
- Punks (Sao Paolo, Brasil ’83, no subs)
- Streetpunk Moscow
- Stokey Punx (Stoke Newington UK ’95)
- Kein Bock (Germany ’81, no subs)
- Girls Will Be Girls (Women in British punk history)
- NYHC (New York Hardcore ’95)
- The Day The Country Died (UK Anarchopunk ’80s)
PUNK BANDS & ARTISTS:
- Crime: San Francisco’s First and Only Rock’n’roll Movie
- Anti-Cimex (Swedish D-beat 85):
- The Punk Singer (Kathleen Hanna)
- Well Done, Now Sod Off (Chumbawamba – video in multiple parts)
- Crass (2 hour radio/audio documentary)
- Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band
- Instrument (Fugazi)
- Nada ni Nadie nos Pudo Doblegar (Los Violadores, Argentina, no subs)
- Four Years In One Gulp (Kid Dynamite)
- Reality 86’d (Black Flag)
- The Shield Around the K (K Records)
- We Jam Econo (The Minutemen)
- Joy Division: A Documentary (duh)
PUNK ADJACENT SCENES, ARTISTS, ETC:
- Slave to the Grind (grindcore)
- Put Blood in the Music (Pt 1, John Zorn)
- Put Blood in the Music (pt 2, Sonic Youth)
- The Nomi Song (Klaus Nomi)
- Busted Circuits and Ringing Ears (TAD)
- Blokes You Can Trust (Cosmic Psychos)
- Antifa: Chasseurs de Skins (Anti-Nazi punk/skins, Paris)
- Music For Misfits (British postpunk/indie)
- Desert Age (Desert Rock/Stoner punk)
- Get Thrashed! The Story of Thrash Metal (Thrash Metal)
- The Story of Skinhead (BBC, ’16)
- This Is Ska (BBC, ’64)
- Lemmy (duh)
