We are currently experiencing technical difficulties with our servers. We hope to have this resolved soon. This issue doesn't affect premium users.
Get Premium
Watch on MixDrop/MyStream
Oops...
Something went wrong
Try again later.
Something went wrong
Try again later.
Here You can choose a playback server.
Rubble Kings
Description
Rubble Kings, the most comprehensive documentation of life during this era of gang rule to date, tells the story of how a few extraordinary, forgotten people did the impossible, and how their actions impacted the world over.
Rubble Kings, the most comprehensive documentation of life during this era of gang rule to date, tells the story of how a few extraordinary, forgotten people did the impossible, and how their actions impacted the world over.
Actors:
Benjamin Melendez, Afrika Bambaataa
Genre:
Documentary
Director:
Shan Nicholson
Shan Nicholson
Country:
United States
COMMENTS (0)
Sort by
Newest
Newest
Oldest
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE
September 10, 2015
Despite its sketchiness, this offers a vivid insight into the rejuvenation of a decaying city through fury, activism and music.June 19, 2015
"Rubble Kings" might have been great. As it is, the film is a one-sided, but satisfying tribute to an alternatively terrifying and beguiling city that we can only revisit in movies.June 17, 2015
"Rubble Kings" is the rare movie I actually wished were longer.June 22, 2015
Real life is a messy, bloody, haphazard affair, punctuated by soaring highs and crushing lows. Bless the documentarian who strives to make his work the same.April 18, 2017
Inspiring docu on hip-hop's roots has some violence, cursingJune 19, 2015
Shan Nicholson's film consists of oral histories from the now-reformed gangsters. As such, it can't help but sound a bit embellished, what with all the street monikers and seemingly glorified titles.June 19, 2015
A fascinating, valuable work of social, music and New York history, a celebration of a peaceful revolution by those who helped birth it.April 01, 2016
The social and economic strife in New York in the sixties and seventies gave birth to one of the most influential and popular subculture's in recent memory, hip-hop.June 18, 2015
As fascinating and well-told as it is, Rubble Kings suffers from a garbled chronology that pushes the narrative of its two main interview subjects.June 17, 2015
An entertaining doc vividly chronicles a troubled era.June 19, 2015
"Rubble Kings" is a documentary that could easily used another hour, and it wouldn't be felt, if the assured editing in this picture is any indication.June 17, 2015
Cramming a lot of anecdotes, urban lore and frenzied movement into a mere 71 minutes, Nicholson's docu imperceptibly builds to an unexpected, revelatory climax.