Style Wars

Style Wars

1984 · 70 min · ★ 7.5 · Music, Documentary, TV Movie

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.

Directed by Tony Silver

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