Charlie Ahearn Movies

  • 2019
    Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks

    Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks

    Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks

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    The fantastic story of how an ancient martial art, Chinese kung fu, conquered the world through the hundreds of films that were produced in Hong Kong...

    Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
  • 1982
    Wild Style

    Wild Style

    Wild Style

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    Legendary New York graffiti artist Lee Quinones plays the part of Zoro, the city's hottest and most elusive graffiti writer. The actual story of the...

    Wild Style
  • 2011
    Blank City

    Blank City

    Blank City

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    In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire...

    Blank City
  • 2009
    Downtown Calling

    Downtown Calling

    Downtown Calling

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    In the late 1970s, the "greatest city in the world" was teetering on the edge of total chaos. A failed economy, crime and en mass housing corruption...

    Downtown Calling
  • 1979
    The Deadly Art of Survival

    The Deadly Art of Survival

    The Deadly Art of Survival

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    Real-life kung fu master Nathan Ingram stars in this gritty, low-budget martial arts epic as a local karate school owner who clashes with a gang of...

    The Deadly Art of Survival
  • 2000
    Fear of Fiction

    Fear of Fiction

    Fear of Fiction

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    This road movie explores the nature of the bond between twins by focusing on a love affair between a man and a woman, each of whom has a twin brother.

    Fear of Fiction
  • 2017
    From Scratch: The Birth of Hip Hop

    From Scratch: The Birth of Hip Hop

    From Scratch: The Birth of Hip Hop

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    A deep exploration into the historical, cultural, political and musical elements that created the genre, featuring present-day conversations with...

    From Scratch: The Birth of Hip Hop
  • 1992
    Doin' Time In Times Square

    Doin' Time In Times Square

    Doin' Time In Times Square

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    Documents the view and action outside director Charlie Ahearn's 43rd Street apartment window from 1981 to 1983.

    Doin' Time In Times Square
  • 2013
    Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer

    Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer

    Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer

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    Documentary following the career of Brooklyn-born photographer Jamel Shabazz, who captured hip-hop in its infancy long before it became a worldwide...

    Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer
  • 1970
    Bongo Barbershop

    Bongo Barbershop

    Bongo Barbershop

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    Charlie Ahearn revisits the Boogie Down two decades later with Tanzanian rapper Balozi Dola in tow for a bilingual MC battle. 2005, DVCam.

    Bongo Barbershop
  • 1978
    G-Man

    G-Man

    G-Man

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    An exploration of social schizophrenia in which terrorists consult their mothers before planting bombs, and the head of the New York City bomb squad...

    G-Man
  • 1998
    Portrait of Martin Wong

    Portrait of Martin Wong

    Portrait of Martin Wong

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    Martin painted the LES ghetto with the most enigmatic realism of bricks to be seen. In 1992 Martin Wong invited Charlie Ahearn up to his Ridge St...

    Portrait of Martin Wong
  • 1993
    Jane in Peepland

    Jane in Peepland

    Jane in Peepland

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    Jane Dickson began her formal career in 1978 after studying at Harvard University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Having moved to...

    Jane in Peepland