The Punk Rock Movie

Musician and filmmaker Don Letts made this Super 8 documentary of the London punk rock scene in 1977. Shot mostly at the Roxy, a short-lived punk club that hosted every important rock band in the neighborhood, The Punk Rock Movie captures an exciting moment in the development of some artists that ...more

In every metropolitan city of the United States (and plenty of smaller burgs) there can be found young people who turn to the era documented in The Punk Rock Movie for their fashion sense, musical tastes, and overall cultural identity. There's one in every decade and punk was it, joining hippie, beatnik, and slacker as youth culture symbols that the old folks pondered and feared. It was too nasty to make money for the corporations at the time, so it had to age, but now the look, sound, and ethos ...more