Martel’s film brilliantly captures a kinetic style of movement that has since influenced dancers around the world. Beautifully shot in black and white, the film focuses on the abstract form of freestyle dancing that arose in New York in the wake of break dancing. Originally produced for PBS in 1992, music video director Dian Martel’s film Wreckin’ Shop: Live From Brooklyn has found a second life as a cult favorite on YouTube. Photo Credit: Screen grab from 'Wreckin Shop' Here is a list of some of the best but lesser-known hip-hop documentaries that you can stream today. Whether it is because of its niche subject matter, lack of broad distribution, or a host of other factors, many amazing hip-hop documentaries end up flying under the radar, with some achieving cult-like status.
In the decades since, countless films have been produced shining light on nearly every single nook-and-cranny of the culture and its history.įrom 1995’s The Show to QD3’s classic docs of the DVD era to Netflix’s wildly popular doc-series Hip-Hop Evolution, there are a ton of informative and inspirational hip-hop documentaries on the market. Early documentaries, like Tony Silver’s classic Style Wars and Charlie Ahearn’s partially dramatized almost-documentary Wildstyle, represent some of the earliest feature-length film representations of hip-hop culture.
The article has been edited for context to ensure its accuracy and relevance.Įver since hip-hop first blossomed out of the South Bronx, there has been a desire by filmmakers to capture visual evidence of the culture in motion. This article has been handpicked from the Okayplayer editorial archives and included in our Hip Hop 50 collection as a noteworthy inclusion to the genre's rich and diverse narrative.
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