Keyword: ska

This Town

7.6

2024

TV

HD

An Extended family and four young people are drawn into the world of ska and two-tone music, which exploded from the grass roots of Coventry and Birmingham in the late 70s and early 80s which united black, white and Asian youths.

The Story of Skinhead

7.3

2016

Movie

HD

Don Letts examines the history of this notorious subculture in a fascinating documentary, which features interviews with members of different skinhead scenes through the decades. Beginning in the late 1960s, Don fondly recalls a time of multiracial harmony as youngsters bonded over a love of ska, reggae and smart clothes as white working-class kids were attracted to Jamaican culture and adopted its music and fashions. But when far-right politics targeted skinheads in the 1970s and 1980s, an ugly intolerance emerged, and Don reveals how the once-harmonious subgroup has since struggled to shake this stigma.

Urgh! A Music War

8

1981

Movie

HD

Live performances from dozens of leading early-1980s musical acts - rock, punk, ska, reggae - its all here.