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Movies that feel like Dogtown and Z-Boys (2002)
This award-winning, thrilling story is about a group of discarded kids who revolutionized skateboarding and shaped the attitude and culture of modern day extreme sports. Featuring old skool skating footage, exclusive interviews and a blistering rock soundtrack, DOGTOWN AND Z-BOYS captures the rise of the Zephyr skateboarding team from Venice's Dogtown, a tough "locals only" beach with a legacy of outlaw surfing.
If you loved Dogtown and Z-Boys, the closest films we have are Riding Giants (2004), Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999) and Overnight (2003). All three share Dogtown and Z-Boys' contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary (1997).
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If Dogtown and Z-Boys hit the spot, these will too
Stacy Peralta working the same nerve twice
Documentary built on stillness, twice over
Both lean on stillness more than on documentary
Documentary with a pulse of stillness, in both cases
Both are documentary through and through
Both play documentary straight
Both working the same documentary territory
Cut from the same documentary cloth
Documentary approached the same way
Documentary in the same key
Both know what they want from documentary
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The best-reviewed films that share Dogtown and Z-Boys’ defining feeling.
