Bones Brigade: An Autobiography

Bones Brigade: An Autobiography

★ 7.9IMDb Score
Released:2012-01-21
Duration:111 min
Director:Stacy Peralta
Actors:Tony Alva, Steve Caballero, Shepard Fairey, Tommy Guerrero, Ben Harper
Production:Nonfiction Unlimited

Overview:

When six teenage boys came together as a skateboarding team in the 1980s, they reinvented not only their chosen sport but themselves too – as they evolved from insecure outsiders to the most influential athletes in the field.

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