"Skateboarding Is Not a Crime"

The Wall Street Journal, of all things, is the title sponsor for this exhaustive look at seminal skateboarding films from the past few decades. The series begins with George Gage's 1978 film, Skateboard, and includes a Q&A session with the director. The legendary Z-Boys figure heavily into the rotation, but the series also includes examples of wonderfully bad attempts by Hollywood to harness skateboarder culture for its own ends.