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When director Tony Silver and co-producer Henry Chalfant delivered the broadcast version of their prize-winning film to PBS in 1983, the world received its first full immersion in the phenomenon that had taken over New York City. The urban landscape was physically transformed by graffiti artists who invented a new visual language to express both their individuality, and the voice of their community. In STYLE WARS, New York's ramshackle subway system is their public playground, battleground, and spectacular artistic canvas. As MC's, DJ's and B-boys rock the city with new sounds and new moves, we see street corner breakdance battles turn into performance art. Filmed in New York in 1982, when hip hop was still in its infancy, STYLE WARS documents a number of young graffiti artists who were transforming the city with their unique art. These artists created a new visual language that was borne out of the hip hop subculture and, using the city's dilapidated subway system as a canvas, let the rest of New York know about it. Unfortunately, graffiti meant vandalism to Mayor Ed Koch, the NYPD, and the MTA, all of whom did their best to oppose the burgeoning movement.
STYLE WARS has become a cultural emblem and ranks among the best hip hop films ever made. Embraced by the culture it depicts as well as by mainstream America, STYLE WARS was one of the first shots fired in the hip hop revolution that took the country by storm. Style Wars Reviews: "Apoplectic detectives, battling break dancers and the greatest rolling artworks of the twentieth century combine in multiple thrilling narratives for this essential hip-hop document."
-- Peter Relic, Rolling Stone Style Wars | List Price | $27.95 (You save $8.90) | | Studio | Music Video Distributors | | Orig Year | 1983 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  4517  | | CD Universe Part number | 5695437 | | Catalog number | 4 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Aug 23, 2005 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Running Time | 70 Minutes | | Movie Details | B&W and Color; Digitally Processed |
Style Wars Movie Review Average Rating: (4.7 out of 5 stars)   STYLE WARS: Original Hip Hop, Graffiti, Breakin' cult movie
1981-82 NEW YORK CITY. Subway trains painted with Graffiti. BLADE, DAZE, SKEME, SEEN, DONDI, CAP etc. Crucial documentry of Hip Hop origins. Breakdancing,ROCK STEADY CREW. Classic cult doco for the Old Skool memorabiliac!!
Submitted by a reviewer (Noethern NSW, AUSTRALIA) 
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 A good place to start!!
If you are into HipHop and you werent around to see the birth of it, then this is the best place to start.I havent seen this since it aired in 1984, but im going to pick this one up for sure
Submitted by a reviewer (The World capital...N.Y.C.)
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Seriously...
Without question the best hip-hop related documentary of ALL-TIME. Nothing else even compares too it.
Submitted by Culture (Queens, NY)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No great graf doc.
great doc in general, especially for the price. loads of added shorts and features.
Submitted by khaldub (Hamilton, NJ USA)
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This review is for a different format.  Correction this gets 5 stars!
I stand corrected, this is worthy of 5 and not 3 stars! I hit the wrong keys!
Submitted by L.Smooth (Fayetteville, NC)
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