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  • Documentary: The Rock-N-Roll Farmers, Donnie & Joe Emerson

    Documentary: The Rock-N-Roll Farmers, Donnie & Joe Emerson

    Released in 1979, Dreamin' Wild is the sonic vision of the talented Emerson boys, recorded in a family built home studio in rural Washington State. Situated in the unlikely blink-and-you-missed-it town of Fruitland and far removed from the late 1970s punk movement and the larger disco boom, Donnie a

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  • Documentary: Big Fun In The Big Town

    Documentary: Big Fun In The Big Town

    Big Fun in the Big Town is a Dutch music documentary from 1986 directed by Bram van Splunteren which follows Marcel Vanthilt on his journey to discover more about this emerging subculture in New York City called Hip-Hop. The crew managed to interview several important pioneers of early Hip-Hop, incl

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  • Documentary: Carnival, Who Started It?

    Documentary: Carnival, Who Started It?

    With an average of over a million visitors, London’s Notting Hill Carnival is second only to Brazil's Rio Carnival in size, and is now one of the globe's largest annual arts events. NHC is considered to be the largest street event in Europe. Whilst Notting Hill Carnival is rooted in Caribbean cultur

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  • Documentary: Antifa, Chasseurs De Skins

    Documentary: Antifa, Chasseurs De Skins

    Antifa, Chasseurs de Skins (=Antifa, Skinhead Hunters) is an enlightening documentary by Marc-Aurèle Vecchione from 2008, on gangs that fought racism in the streets of Paris in the mid-1980s. These anti-fascist groups -the Red Warriors, the Ducky Boys and the Ruddy Fox- came up in reaction to the at

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  • Documentary: Reckin’ Shop - Live From Bklyn

    Documentary: Reckin’ Shop - Live From Bklyn

    Originally produced for PBS in 1992, music video director Diane Martel’s film Reckin ’ Shop: Live From Brooklyn focuses on the abstract form of freestyle dancing that arose in New York in the wake of break dancing, beautifully shot in black and white. The Patta x Summer Dance Forever Long Sleeve Shi

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  • Documentary: All Junglists, A London Someting Dis

    Documentary: All Junglists, A London Someting Dis

    All Junglists: ‘A London Someting Dis’ is a documentary tracing the origins of Drum and Bass through Jungle Music that was first shown as part of Channel 4's Black Christmas season in 1994.

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  • Documentary: Talking Heads - South Bank Show (1979)

    Documentary: Talking Heads - South Bank Show (1979)

    In 1979, the British televised arts programme The South Bank Show, followed Talking Heads during the recording of their third album Fear of Music . Watch the short documentary, an excellent impressionistic cut-up of live recordings, studio interview footage and images of '70s New York, below.

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  • Documentary: Ny77, The Coolest Year In Hell

    Documentary: Ny77, The Coolest Year In Hell

    NY77: The Coolest Year In Hell is a Vh1 documentary about NYC in 1977, weaving together the stories of the emergence of Hip Hop, punk and disco, graffiti art, and sexual liberation. The Bronx was burning, the city was blacked out, and the Son Of Sam was terrorising everyone. What a time to be alive.

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  • Wafflesncream - Mango

    Wafflesncream - Mango

    This raining season, our friends WAFFLESNCREAM from Lagos, have released a skateboarding video. MANGO is directed by South African videographer Jonathan Pinkhard. The video was all shot in Lagos, Nigeria. MANGO runs 8 minutes. Peep below.

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  • Documentary: Synth Brittania

    Documentary: Synth Brittania

    Synth Brittania is a 2009 BBC Four documentary following a generation of post-punk musicians who took the synthesiser from the experimental fringes to the centre of the pop stage. In the late 1970s, small pockets of electronic artists including The Human League, Daniel Miller and Cabaret Voltaire we

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  • Documentary: I Was There When House Took Over The World

    Documentary: I Was There When House Took Over The World

    Watch I Was There When House Took Over the World now. This documentary explores the origins of house – from its beginnings in Chicago’s underground gay clubs to its global takeover. Featuring interviews with Nile Rodgers, Marshall Jefferson, Jesse Saunders, Chip E, Steve ‘Silk’ Hurley and Honey Dijo

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  • Documentary: Syl Johnson, Any Way The Wind Blows

    Documentary: Syl Johnson, Any Way The Wind Blows

    Syl Johnson: Any Way The Wind Blows is a portrait of an overlooked yet hugely influential African-American musician whose 60 year career spanned every genre of Black music from the Blues, to Soul, to Funk, to Hip Hop. In spite of enjoying success in Chicago in the 1960s with songs like “Come On Sock

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  • Documentary: The Godmother Of Rock & Roll

    Documentary: The Godmother Of Rock & Roll

    From writer, producer and director Mick Csaky, The Godmother of Rock & Roll: Sister Rosetta Tharpe is a documentary that chronicles the life, music and influence of African-American gospel singer and guitar virtuoso Sister Rosetta Tharpe. During the 1940s, 50s and 60s, Sister Rosetta Tharpe played a

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  • Documentary: Reggae Brittania

    Documentary: Reggae Brittania

    Reggae Brittania is a deep dive into the world of British reggae. The programme shows how it came from Jamaica in the 1960s to influence, over the next 20 years, both British music and society, and includes major artists and performances from that era: Big Youth, Max Romeo, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jer

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  • Tokyo Melody: A Film About Ryuichi Sakamoto

    Tokyo Melody: A Film About Ryuichi Sakamoto

    "Tokyo Melody: A film about Ryuichi Sakamoto" is a documentary by French photographer Elizabeth Lennard about the eclectic Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, filmed during the recording sessions for his 1984 album “Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia”. Originally aired on Japanese and French TV, the d

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  • Documentary: Shakedown By Leilah Weinraub

    Documentary: Shakedown By Leilah Weinraub

    Directed by Leilah Weinraub, 'SHAKEDOWN' is a stream-of-consciousness, nonfiction narrative about the queer women and men who populated the lesbian strip club scene in Los Angeles and its genesis. Owned and operated by women, underground and illegal in nature, the club Shakedown is the darker, faste

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