Story Line
Before Bad Brains, the Sex Pistols or even the Ramones, there was Death. Formed in the early '70s by three teenage brothers from Detroit, Death is credited as being the first black punk band, and the Hackney brothers, David, Bobby, and Dannis, are now considered pioneers in their field. But it wasn’t until recently — when a dusty 1974 demo tape made its way out of Bobby’s attic nearly 30 years after Death’s heyday — that anyone outside a small group of punk enthusiasts had even heard of them.
“This Band was Punk, before Punk was Punk”
Top Cast
Dannis Hackney
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Bobby Hackney
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David Hackney
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Henry Rollins
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Elijah Wood
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Kid Rock
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Rating
7.2/ 10
Release Date
2013-06-27
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
DocumentaryMusic
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User Reviews (1)
kineticandroid
No rating•6/21/2014
There's an undercurrent of disappointment throughout the story of a band called Death. Misunderstood and marginalized in their time, they endured a lot of rejection and settled into lives that turned out differently than for what they had hoped. Then...