Ian MacKaye Movies
- 2017
L7: Pretend We're Dead
L7: Pretend We're Dead6.92017HD
A real time journey witnessing the rise, fall, and ultimate redemption of the fierce feminist pioneers of American grunge punk: L7.
- 2008
I Need That Record!
I Need That Record!6.52008HD
Guerilla filmmaker Brendan Toller unleashes I NEED THAT RECORD! THE DEATH (OR POSSIBLE SURVIVAL) OF THE INDEPENDENT RECORD STORE, "an elegy for a...
- 1984
Another State of Mind
Another State of Mind6.21984HD
Another State of Mind is a documentary film made in the summer of 1982 chronicling the adventure (and misadventure) of two punk bands – Social...
- 2012
Bad Brains: A Band in DC
Bad Brains: A Band in DC6.22012HD
Bad Brains are one of the most important and influential American bands still working today. They melded punk and reggae into an innovative style...
- 2019
The Tony Alva Story
The Tony Alva Story102019HD
62-years-old Alva, the oldest professional, skateboarder in the world, is considered by many to be the godfather of modern day skateboarding....
- 1999
Instrument
Instrument71999HD
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...
- 2004
Chain
Chain6.42004HD
In Chain, actual malls, theme parks, hotels and corporate centers worldwide are joined into a monolithic superlandscape that shapes and circumscribes...
- 2014
Positive Force: More Than a Witness - 30 Years of Punk Politics in Action
Positive Force: More Than a Witness - 30 Years of Punk Politics in Action02014HD
Punk activist collective Positive Force emerged in 1985, rising from the ashes of Revolution Summer. This feature-length film by Robin Bell...
- 2012
We Who Wait: The Adverts & TV Smith
We Who Wait: The Adverts & TV Smith82012HD
A documentary about the life and career of UK singer-songwriter and Adverts frontman, TV Smith.
- 2018
Records Collecting Dust II
Records Collecting Dust II72018HD
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...
- 2020
I Really Get Into It: The Underage Architects of Sioux Falls Punk
I Really Get Into It: The Underage Architects of Sioux Falls Punk02020HD
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...
- 1994
The Obsessed: The Documentary
The Obsessed: The Documentary61994HD
Documentary on doom metal band The Obsessed. Featuring members of: White Zombie, Fugazi, Pantera, Henry Rollins, L7, The Melvins and more.
- 2005
Don't Need You - The Herstory of Riot Grrrl
Don't Need You - The Herstory of Riot Grrrl72005HD
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...
- 2014
The Dicks from Texas
The Dicks from Texas02014HD
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.
- 1989
Glueman
Glueman21989HD
Collaboration with Fugazi
- 2013
Dither: The D.I.Y. Sound
Dither: The D.I.Y. Sound02013HD
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...
- 2014
Breadcrumb Trail
Breadcrumb Trail7.5292014HD
Breadcrumb Trail focuses on Slint's seminal album, Spiderland, and the Louisville music scene from which the band originated.
- 1999
Fugazi: Live in Hamburg 1999
Fugazi: Live in Hamburg 199901999HD
Fugazi perfoming at the Fabrik in Hamburg, Germany, on September 18 1999.
- 2002
D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist4.72002HD
This documentary features interviews with Ian MacKaye (Fugazi), J Mascis (Dinosaur jr.), John John Jesse (Demonic Erotic painter), Jim Rose (Jim Rose...
- 2003
Quest for Sleep
Quest for Sleep02003HD
An hour-long documentary filmed by the band, Superchunk, on its 2001 tour of Japan, Europe and the US