The Writing on the Wall (1986)
• December 11th, 1986 • 0h 28min
Documentary
Overview
"In this half-hour documentary, Producer Sandra King provides an intimate portrait of a public phenomenon: Graffiti. Over an 18 month period, King and her crew followed the teenage members of a graffiti 'crew,' Vandals on the Street, as they painted and rapped and moved through the streets of downtown Newark. What emerges is a unique glimpse behind the 'tags' at the kind of inner city kids who write on walls, but who also make art; who create out of wedlock children, but who also form binding relationships; who drop out of school and never read a book, but who create their own brand of poetry through the medium of 'rap.'
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Dave Chappelle's Block Party
Released on: 2005-09-12
Comedy, Documentary, Music
The American comedian/actor delivers a story about the alternative Hip Hop scene. A small town Ohio ...
Numero Zero: The Roots of Italian Rap
Released on: 2015-12-01
Documentary
In the eighties comes from overseas powerful, unstoppable, the wave of hip hop. Few years later the ...
Trapped in the City of a Thousand Mountains
Released on: 2019-09-15
Documentary
A new phenomenon of authentic Chinese rap has taken the internet by storm. But behind the unpreceden...
Love Parade: When Love Learned to Dance
Released on: 2019-12-20
Documentary, History, Music
At the end of the Cold War, something new arised that should influence an entire generation and expr...
American Exposé: Absence of Light
Released on: 1993-11-05
Documentary, Crime, Horror
An inside look at Satanism from its origins to its victims. Shot on location in Richmond, Virginia, ...
Arquivos Kino-Pop
Released on: 2019-05-14
Documentary, Music
Cine-diaries about rock bands and personalities from the eighties from the archives of Edgar Pêra.
Rap, O Canto da Ceilândia
Released on: 2005-11-29
Documentary
A documentary about rap artists from Ceilândia, a satellite-city of Brazil capital, Brasilia. The fi...
America; I Too
Released on: 2017-03-06
Documentary
Three arrested and detained undocumented immigrants must navigate the system to fight impending depo...
Prinzessinnenbad
Released on: 2007-05-31
Documentary
A film about three teenagers - Klara, Mina and Tanutscha - from the Berlin district of Kreuzberg. Th...
Freddie Mercury: The Final Act
Released on: 2022-04-20
Documentary, Music
The story of the extraordinary final chapter of Freddie Mercury’s life and how, after his death from...
Akademija the Republic
Released on: 1995-01-01
Documentary, Music
Akademija Republika shows a group of people gathered around the club from 1981 until 1995 and how it...
RD20
Released on: 2016-06-25
Documentary
The documentary tracks the making of Reasonable Doubt, Hova's rise to stardom, and the legacy of the...
Our Latin Thing (Nuestra Cosa)
Released on: 1972-01-01
Documentary, History, Music
Leon Gast's musical documentary reveals New York City's Latin culture and features live performances...
Rize
Released on: 2005-01-15
Documentary
A documentary film that highlights two street derived dance styles, Clowning and Krumping, that came...
Nobody Knows My Name
Released on: 1999-01-01
Documentary, Music
A film about women who love and make hip-hop music. These artists strive through the erasures and ob...
Baldiga: Unlocked Heart
Released on: 2024-11-28
Documentary
Using diary excerpts, photographs and memories from companions, the film paints the portrait of the ...