doa (1980)

Documentary that chronicles the life and times of the original punk movement in it's death throws at the time. Featuring many of the movers and shakers and more importantly lots of the audience, giving a great feel for the look and attitudes of the times. Concert footage is featured alongside interviews both pro and anti the movement, styles and music. All overlaid with fascinating footage of everyday London scenes, revealing the mundane greyness of existence at the time.
Highlights include the Sex Pistols falling apart on their USA tour and Terry Sylvester, who vents about his council estate dole life, a life going nowhere fast, as he tries to put together a disastrous band. Low light is watching Sid and Nancy literally falling apart before our eyes.
If you want to see and hear the real punk movement, then this is it, as far as London was concerned anyway. Raw, grim and amateurish. The interviews say so much more than the stars ever could and the music is left to speak for itself. A must see to understand the life and times, but inessential if you are not into the music or late 70's London.