When You’re Strange: A Film About The Doors

Nar­rated by Johnny Depp, award-winning writer-director Tom DiCillo’s riv­et­ing film uncov­ers his­toric, pre­vi­ously unseen footage of The Doors and pro­vides new insight into the rev­o­lu­tion­ary impact of their music and legacy. “When You’re Strange” is the first fea­ture doc­u­men­tary to tell their story.

Com­ing to a the­ater near you on April 9^th 2010.

When you’re strange
Faces come out of the rain
When you’re strange
No one remem­bers your name
When you’re strange
When you’re strange
When you’re strange

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Skatopia

Skatopia: 88 Acres of Anar­chy is a fea­ture doc­u­men­tary that fol­lows one of skate­board­ings most infa­mous under­ground fig­ures. Pro-skater Brewce Mar­tin is the self-declared dic­ta­tor of a rural Appalachian skate scene so extreme that MTVs bad-boy Bam Marg­era fled the prop­erty on his first visit. The movie fol­lows Brewce for a tumul­tuous year as he strug­gles to keep Skatopia afloat. Though he declares skat­ing his prime direc­tive, the film reveals a fiercely dri­ven entre­pre­neur deter­mined to achieve suc­cess on his own terms.

Visit the web­site to the doc­u­men­tary and the Skatopia web­site to find out more.

Crips and Bloods: Made in America

Doc­u­men­tary about gang wars in Los Ange­les by Stacy Per­alta, a film maker (respon­si­ble for Dog­town & Z-Boys and Rid­ing Giants) and for­mer skate­board pro.

Sigur Rós — Takk Documentary

In this 30 minute short film you can lis­ten to an inter­view with the band mem­bers in which they talk about each song on takk indi­vid­u­ally. The band tells us about the ori­gin, inspi­ra­tion, record­ing process, and gen­eral com­ments about the songs on takk. The inter­views are accom­pa­nied by images of the band’s sur­round­ings in álafoss and reykjavík.

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Make it count — The Element Story

On August 1^st, 2009 Ele­ment Skate­boards will release the full-length doc­u­men­tary “Make it count — The Ele­ment Story” for free.

You can already watch the trailer:

Free documentary: Gangland — Hells Angels

The Hells Angels Motor­cy­cle Club (HAMC) is a world­wide “one-percenter” motor­cy­cle gang and orga­nized crime syn­di­cate whose mem­bers typ­i­cally ride Harley-Davidson motor­cy­cles. In the United States and Canada, the Hells Angels are incor­po­rated as the Hells Angels Motor­cy­cle Cor­po­ra­tion.

Both the Fed­eral Bureau of Inves­ti­ga­tion and the Crim­i­nal Intel­li­gence Ser­vice Canada clas­sify the Angels as one of the “big four” out­law motor­cy­cle clubs, con­tend­ing that mem­bers carry out wide­spread vio­lence, drug deal­ing, traf­fick­ing in stolen goods, and extor­tion. Mem­bers of the orga­ni­za­tion itself assert that this is a mis­char­ac­ter­i­za­tion, and state that they are a group of motor­cy­cle enthu­si­asts who orga­nize social events such as group road trips, fundrais­ers, par­ties, and motor­cy­cle rallies.

Gang­land — Hells Angels — Behind Enemy Lines