Dogtown and Z-boys
(DVD) 

Originally released as a motion picture in 2001.

Special features: freestyle experience (raw footage) ; director and editor commentary ; alternate ending: Alva 2000 ; trailers ; trailers (recommendations).

Editor, Paul Crowder ; director of photography, Peter Pilafian ; original music by Terry Wilson and Paul Crowder ; narrated by Sean Penn.

Featuring [Zephyr skateboard team members] Shogo Kubo, Bob Biniak, Nathan Pratt, Stacy Peralta, Jim Muir, Allen Sarlo, Chris Cahill, Tony Alva, Paul Constantineau, Jay Adams, Peggy Oki, Wentzle Ruml.

In the early '70s, Dogtown was what habitués called the gone-to-seed beachfront sections of Santa Monica and Venice, California. A group of surfers, who were also skaters, hung out together at the Zephyr Surf Shop. Skateboarding was a dying '60s pastime when new polyurethane wheels and new uses for an endless supply of concrete rescued it. The Z-Boys, sporting surf-derived fluid styles and aggressive attitudes, reinvented it, and then reintroduced it to U.S. teenagers. The Z-Boys definitively added style to skating, while they created-out of thin air-the idea of skating as a lifestyle.

DVD format, NTSC; region 1, Dolby Digital 5.0 stereo, presentation aspect ratio 1.33:1, full screen.

In English, with optional French subtitles ; closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

Sundance Film Festival, 2001: Winner, Stacy Peralta, 2001 Audience Award and Directing Award, Documentary.