Skateboarding, as it is today, was born sometime around the late ‘40s or early ‘50s, and it’s the surfboarders we have to thank for it. It was them who found that you could “surf the sidewalk” when the waves were flat, and skateboarding soon became a hugely popular phenomenon. However, the culture around it - with fashion, music, and attitude - formed a bit later, in the ‘70s. Most notably, of course, in Los Angeles, where the sun was always shining and dry levees, abandoned pools, and various stairways made a nice playground to, predominantly, the dudes in the sport. Oh yes, the dudes, since at first, girl skateboarders were shunned from this society, gaining their place in the world of skateboarding years later.
What we have now, however, is a full-fledged community of skateboarders with magazines, TV series, movies, and music, dedicated to this Olympic sport. Didn’t you know that skateboarding was added to the Olympics in 2020? Well, now you know! Anyway, we’re not here to talk about the Olympic Games but rather to invite you to check out the skateboarding movies that we’ve rounded up in this list!
Even if you aren’t a skater, you’ll definitely find these movies entertaining, if not heavily nostalgic! They do have a tendency to depict the decades of skateboarding in such a way that you are bound to reminisce about your own salad days, no matter where you grew up. And, if you’re a newbie at the sport, you’ll find quite a few documentaries on our list, too, that will shed some light on the history of this sport. But, if you’re a pro and the history is not something that you need a refresher on, you will most likely find some skateboarding-related movies that you haven’t seen yet here on this list!
So, what are we waiting here for? Let’s skip straight to the best skateboarding movies, shall we? Once you are there, vote for the ones you’ve enjoyed the most and share this compendium with the dudes and the gals.
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