Depicts the legendary skateboarders as they achieve world wide fame by winning world championships and then descent into the world of drug addiction and crime. This documentary is moving and is geared as a warning to those who are considering drug experimentation. It features unseen archival skateboarding footage of the founders of skateboarding as we know it today.
Practical Effects
Rare archival footage of skateboarding's actual inventors.
Production
Danny Trejo's gravel-voiced narration elevates everything.
Editing
Jarring cuts between glory days and mugshots.
Director
Chris Aherns
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Chris Aherns was a former skate photographer who personally knew most subjects, making the interviews possible before several died.
This predated the X Games nostalgia wave by years, making it one of the first docs to critically examine skateboarding's dark underbelly rather than celebrate it.
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