D.O.A. is a 1980 documentary film directed by Lech Kowalski (his premiere film as a director) about the origin of punk rock. Given the subtitle A Rite of Passage, this movie takes interview and concert footage of some of punk rock's earliest bands of the late seventies scene. Features live performances by the Sex Pistols, The Dead Boys, Generation X (with Billy Idol), The Rich Kids, the X-Ray Spex, and Sham 69, with additional music from The Clas...
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D.O.A. is a 1980 documentary film directed by Lech Kowalski (his premiere film as a director) about the origin of punk rock. Given the subtitle A Rite of Passage, this movie takes interview and concert footage of some of punk rock's earliest bands of the late seventies scene. Features live performances by the Sex Pistols, The Dead Boys, Generation X (with Billy Idol), The Rich Kids, the X-Ray Spex, and Sham 69, with additional music from The Clash, Iggy Pop, and Augustus Pablo.
When the Sex Pistols blew through America in 1978, film director Lech Kowalski followed them with handheld cameras through the clubs and bars of their seven-city Southern tour. Mixing this with footage of other contemporary bands, trends in the fashion capitals, and punks of all shapes and colors, Kowalski created a grainy, stained snapshot of a movement at its peak, showing how certain authority figures saw the movement as a threat.
It features interview footage (including the famous interview of Sid and Nancy...
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