Teenage

Apr 20, 2013

1h 20m

★ 6.3

The birth of youth culture

Overview

Teenagers did not exist before the 20th century. Not until the early 1950s did the term gain widespread recognition, but "Teenage" offers compelling evidence that teenagers had a tumultuous effect on the previous half-decade.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Oscilloscope

Teenage Trailers

Cast

British Boy (voice)

Ben Whishaw

American Girl (voice)

Jena Malone

German Girl (voice)

Julia Hummer

Tommie Scheel

Ben Rosenfield

American Boy (voice)

Jessie T. Usher

Brenda Dean Paul

Leah Hennessey

Warren Wall

Malik Peters

Melita Machmann

Ivy Blackshire

Melita Machmann (voice)

Daniela Leder

1940s Teenager

Alden Ehrenreich

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4.8

#BKKY

Aug 3, 2017

Jojo, a 17-year-old girl from Bangkok, is about to graduate from high school. After her friend Q reveals a secret to her, the two girls grow close and spend all their time together. Jojo's father wholeheartedly approves of the friendship and is just glad that Jojo is not going on any dates with boys.

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2.7

Is This Love?

Jan 1, 1957

Liz tries to keep her friend from making the worse mistake of her life.

0.0

La Meilleure Façon de tracer

Jan 18, 2010

No overview available.

0.0

Top Rider

Feb 12, 2024

An in-depth look into the isolated sport of Motocross in the much more isolated island of Bermuda.

6.4

American Teen

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A documentary on seniors at a high school in a small Indiana town and their various cliques.

6.3

Lost for Life

Jun 22, 2013

A documentary about juveniles who are serving life in prison without parole and their victims' families.

0.0

Solid Ground

May 8, 2015

The unique journey of three reserved and endearing teens as they test their limits, discover the meaning of strong connections and live and learn in synch with the natural rhythms of the land and its animals.

7.0

Los posibles

Apr 1, 2013

Santiago Mitre co-directs his first movement following The Student together with choreographer Onofri Barbato. Although it would have been more accurate to say “his first film-story-adventure-movie-great movie following The Student”, the word movement fits perfectly in Los posibles, the most overwhelmingly kinetic work Argentine cinema has delivered in many, many years. The film deals with the adaptation of a dance show directed by Onofri together with a group of teenagers who came to Casa La Salle, a center of social integration located in González Catán, trying to find some refuge from hardship. Already entitled Los posibles, the piece opened in the La Plata Tacec and was later staged in the AB Hall of the San Martín Cultural Center. Now, it dazzles audiences out of a film screen, with extraordinary muscles and a huge heart: Los posibles is a rhapsody of roughen bodies and torn emotions. Precise and exciting, it’s our own delayed, necessary, and incandescent West Side Story.

0.0

Band of Exile

Jul 1, 1994

Here in Toronto, four young Somali refugees are finishing high school. What did they bring with them? What did they find in Canada? Their testimonies, about us and about themselves, interspersed with newsreel footage and sequences of a theatrical creation in which they put all their soul, make them immediately endearing and overturn many prejudices held against refugees. A film that makes you want to get to know them better.

2.5

Diary of a Teenage Nudist

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Documentary from the point of view of a now 18 year old girl who grew up in a nudist colony.

7.5

Streetwise

Dec 7, 1984

This documentary about teenagers living on the streets in Seattle began as a magazine article. The film follows nine teenagers who discuss how they live by panhandling, prostitution, and petty theft.

0.0

The In Between

Sep 29, 2024

Following the death of her brother, filmmaker Robie Flores returns to her hometown Eagle Pass on the Texas/Mexico border, wanting to turn back time. She collides with unruly experiences of adolescence – quinceañeras, Rio Grande river excursions, teen makeovers and beyond – that invite her to soak up the details of the home her brother adored and she ignored. What emerges is a playful dance between a personal and collective coming-of-age portrait of kids on the border and Robie herself as she rediscovers the possibilities of joy in the aftermath of grief.

6.0

Teen Spirit: Teenagers and Hollywood

Sep 30, 2009

Teen movies have had a great impact on the movie industry - especially in the 80s. This documentary takes a closer look at the genre's origins and the impact it has made up till today.

0.0

Odyssey

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Six California kids test their brains and talents against students in Odyssey of the Mind, a problem-solving competition requiring mechanical, creative and intellectual skills. With little money and zero adult participation, the teens build a robot to tell a story about bullying, exclusion and mental health. But how does their solution measure up?

0.0

Under the Skin: The Making of 'Ticks'

Oct 26, 2021

No overview available.

7.3

School Town King

Dec 17, 2020

It follows two teenage rappers in Bangkok who use their musical talent to navigate their difficult circumstances.

0.0

34 Days in 2018

Jul 18, 2025

13-year-old Anderson Cefola documents his month-long grounding in 2018 with an old handheld camera he kept.

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8.0

Welcome to F.L.

Jan 22, 2016

A documentary portrait of high-school students in the Quebec city of Sorel-Tracy.

6.6

Swagger

Nov 16, 2016

A teen-movie documentary, Swagger carries us in the midst of the astonishing minds of eleven teenagers from an underprivileged neighborhood.