Jan 23, 1984
70 min
Full-HD

Style Wars (1984)

Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant's PBS documentary tracks the rise and fall of subway graffiti in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Category

Music Documentary TV Movie

Country

United States of America

Companies

Public Art Films

Cap

Self

Daze

Self

Dondi

Self

Kase 2

Self

Eric Haze

Self

Ed Koch

Self

Rammellzee

Self

Irene Cara

Self

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