Henry Rollins Filmography

Classic Albums: The Doors - The Doors

Synopsis: This program documents the making of the first album by The Doors. In addition to archival footage exploring the band's early history, the living members of the group demonstrate how the band's sound developed. In addition, Bruce Botnik, the group's recording engineer, explains how their sound was Read More

Henry Rollins: Uncut From Israel

Actors: Henry Rollins

Wrong Turn 2: Dead End

Actors: Henry Rollins, Texas Battle, Erica Leerhsen, Ken Kirzinger

Synopsis: The malformed mayhem continues as a group of reality game show contestants descend into the West Virginia wilderness in order to participate in an apocalypse-themed game show, only to be brutally killed off by a deranged clan of redneck cannibals. Dale Murphy (Henry Rollins) is a former special Read More

Public Enemy: Welcome to the Terrordome

Actors: Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Professor Griff, Beastie Boys, Tom Morello

Synopsis: In 1987 Public Enemy emerged as one of the most formidable forces in rap music with the release of their landmark sophomore album {^It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back}; nearly 20 years later, Chuck D and the crew still have what it takes to get their powerful message across while Read More

Feast

Actors: Balthazar Getty, Henry Rollins, Navi Rawat, Judah Friedlander, Josh Zuckerman

Synopsis: The hard-drinking patrons of a small-town dive bar are forced to fight for their lives when a vicious family of flesh-eating creatures arrive looking for their latest meal in a fast and fun horror romp filmed as part of HBO's Project Greenlight series and starring Balthazar Getty, Judah Friedlander Read More

American Hardcore

Actors: Bad Brains, Black Flag, The Circle Jerks, D.O.A.

Synopsis: The lost subculture of America's rebellious, Reagan-era hardcore set is explored in filmmaker Paul Rachman's cinematic adaptation of Steven Blush's book. Disillusioned by politics, angered by greedy record labels, and bound together by a powerful antiestablishment sentiment, bands such as Minor Threat Read More

The Henry Rollins Show [TV Series]

Actors: Henry Rollins

Henry Rollins: Uncut from NYC

Synopsis: Few artists are quite as outspoken as former Black Flag frontman Henry Rollins, and in this performance captured live at Town Hall during the prolific actor, author, and Rollins Band founder's two month "Spoken Word Tour," fans can take home all of the hard-edged wisdom and humor that have Read More

Punk's Not Dead

Actors: Jello Biafra, Henry Rollins, Charlie Harper, Wattie Buchen, Dick Lucas

Synopsis: As the original DIY spirit of punk becomes increasingly watered down through commercialization and corporate influence, longtime photographer and Brick co-producer Susan Dynner explores the music's origins as a social movement uniting disenfranchised outsiders before tracing its breakthrough into Read More

Lies & Alibis

Actors: Steve Coogan, Rebecca Romijn, Selma Blair, James Brolin, Sam Elliott

Synopsis: When a reformed grifter currently running a prosperous alibi service for adulterous husbands inadvertently becomes an accessory to murder, he is forced to execute one last, well-timed con as a means of clearing his name in this lightning fast caper comedy starring Steve Coogan, Rebecca Romijin Read More

First Descent

Actors: Shaun White, Hannah Teter, Shawn Farmer, Nick Perata, Terje Haakonsen

Synopsis: When snowboarding first rose to popularity in the 1980s, many people didn't know what to make of it -- taking the thrashed-out style of skateboarding and moving it to the ski slopes, snowboarding was hardly welcomed by the old-school winter sports establishment who regarded 'boarders as punks and Read More

We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen

Actors: D. Boon, George Hurley, Gregg Ginn

Synopsis: Formed by two childhood friends from San Pedro, CA, D. Boon and Mike Watt, the Minutemen were at once one of the key bands in the Southern California hardcore punk scene of the '80s and a group who flew in the face of all rules, including those of punk rock. Named in part because their early songs Read More

Punk: Attitude

Synopsis: Director Don Letts' documentary Punk: Attitude examines the politics, fashion, and music of this pop culture trend. He interviews and shares performance footage from a variety of famous musical acts including "Black Flag, Jello Biafra, Legs McNeil, The Ramones, and proto-punks The Stooges and New Read More

Hubert Selby Jr: It'll Be Better Tomorrow

Actors: Robert Downey, Jr., Hubert Selby, Jr., Lou Reed, Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto

Synopsis: Hubert Selby Jr. was a powerful and influential literary figure whose best-known novels, Last Exit to Brooklyn and Requiem for a Dream, dealt with the dark underside of life in a way that was bleak and often shocking, but also laced with compassion and understanding for the tortured lives of his Read More

Henry Rollins: Live at Luna Park

Synopsis: Henry Rollins: Live at Luna Park contains spoken word performance footage recorded live at the Luna Park nightclub in Hollywood between March and April 1999. The disc also contains the 20-minute clip "Rollins vs. Iggy Pop," in which Rollins openly discusses his longtime rivalry with rocker Iggy Pop Read More

Deathdealer: A Documentary

Actors: Henry Rollins

Bad Boys II

Actors: Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, Jordi Mollà, Gabrielle Union, Peter Stormare, Theresa Randle, Joe Pantoliano

Synopsis: Stars Martin Lawrence and Will Smith return along with director Michael Bay and producer Jerry Bruckheimer for this sequel to the 1995 sleeper hit Bad Boys, the film that sparked the careers of both actors, as well as Bay. Once again, Lawrence and Smith play hotshot, wisecracking Miami narcotics Read More

Henry Rollins: Shock & Awe - The Tour

Synopsis: Author, musician, publisher, and general punk rock renaissance man Henry Rollins offers more of his uncensored opinions about the world around him in this video, which documents a March 2004 spoken word performance in Seattle, WA. Henry Rollins: Shock & Awe, The Tour (also known as Shock and Awe Read More

Jackass: The Movie

Actors: Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Chris Pontius, Steve-O, Dave England

Synopsis: Johnny Knoxville and his crew of fun-loving masochists bring their routines to the big screen in this feature adaptation of the popular but controversial MTV series Jackass. A crew of young men perform a variety of strange, painful, and often humiliating stunts for the amusement of themselves and Read More

The New Guy

Actors: D.J. Qualls, Eliza Dushku, Zooey Deschanel, Lyle Lovett, Jerod Mixon, Eddie Griffin

Synopsis: Former Prada model and Road Trip co-star D.J. Qualls makes a bid for leading man status in this nerd-makeover comedy. Qualls stars as Dizzy, a dorky but delinquent high school student who's determined to get expelled from his hellish high school -- but ends up landing in jail instead. There he Read More

Dogtown and Z-Boys

Actors: Tony Hawk, Stacy Peralta, Henry Rollins, Sean Penn

Synopsis: In the mid-'70s, skateboarding was widely seen as a fad of the 1960s that had all but died out, except for a handful of committed fans in California. But that began to change with the emerge of the Z-Boys, a team of teenaged skateboarders who emerged from a decaying urban community in Santa Read More

The Drew Carey Show: Hickory Dickory...Double-Date

Synopsis: After striking out with Prospective Bride #1 Bonnie (Amy Farrington), Drew moves on to Prospective Bride #2 Stacey (Ion Overman), talking Kellie (Cynthia Watros) into a double date. Unfortunately, Kellie can't over her own longtime crush on Drew, and her incompatability with her own date Rand Read More

Scenes of the Crime

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Jon Abrahams, Noah Wyle, Morris Chestnut, Mädchen Amick

Synopsis: A small-time crook who worships Steve McQueen gets in over his head in French music video director Dominique Forma's debut feature, Scenes of the Crime. Lenny (Jon Abrahams of Scary Movie) is about to be married, but he skips his own bachelor party to drive for thug Rick (Peter Greene), who Read More

A House on a Hill

Actors: Philip Baker Hall, Laura San Giacomo, Shirley Knight, Rebecca Staab, Henry Rollins

Synopsis: A retired architect returns to work at the behest of unlikely patrons in this low-key drama. Richard and Kate Banks (Jack Conley and Rebecca Staab) are a well-to-do couple who want to buy a home in Southern California. While house-hunting, Kate discovers the charred remains of a house that was Read More

Time Lapse

Actors: William McNamara, Roy Scheider, Dina Meyer, Henry Rollins

Synopsis: A spy discovers information that could put the entire nation in danger, and must struggle to remember the facts while he still can in this suspense thriller. Clayton Pierce (William McNamara) is an American intelligence agent who has infiltrated a cadre of Russian and Saudi gangsters in order to Read More

My Generation

Synopsis: A documentary look at the generational differences between the original 1969 Woodstock and its 1994 and 1999 follow-ups, Barbara Kopple's My Generation chronicles the festival's evolution from its original, relatively spontaneous and noncommercial genesis to the cash-fueled, product tie-in form it Read More

Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker

Actors: Mark Hamill, Will Friedle

Synopsis: The young protégé of one of the world's greatest superheroes has his first encounter with an old nemesis in this direct-to-video feature adapted from the popular animated series Batman Beyond. Terry McGinnis (Will Friedle) has taken over the crime-fighting responsibilities of Batman from aging Read More

Desperate But Not Serious

Actors: Christine Taylor, Paget Brewster, Claudia Schiffer, John Corbett

Synopsis: In this frantic comedy, Lily (Christine Taylor) is thrilled when Jonathan (John Corbett), a good-looking man she's had her eye on for some time, asks her to attend a friend's wedding reception with him. But Lily's joy is short-lived when, on the day of the wedding, she misplaces her invitation and Read More

Hardcore Plus, Vol. 1

Jack Frost

Actors: Ahmet Zappa, Dweezil Zappa, Henry Rollins, Trevor Rabin, Michael Keaton, Kelly Preston, Mark Addy, Joseph Cross

Synopsis: Michael Keaton stars in this special-effects-heavy Christmas film about a boy who discovers, after his father dies in a car accident, that his dad is still alive in the form of a snowman. Unlike the horror film of the same name, Jack Frost is a children's film designed to warm the soul during a Read More

Small Soldiers

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Gregory Smith, Jay Mohr, Phil Hartman, Kevin Dunn

Synopsis: Joe Dante directed this satirical action-comedy about talking tech toys accidentally juiced-up with military microchips. After the defense industry firm Globotech takes over a small toy company, Heartland Play Systems' CEO Gil Mars (Denis Leary) gives the green light to develop a new line of Read More

Lost Highway

Actors: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Robert Blake, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Robert Loggia

Synopsis: Five years after the critical and commercial disappointment of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, director David Lynch returned to the big screen with this cryptic thriller about confused identities and erotic obsession. Fred (Bill Pullman) is an avant-garde jazz saxophonist who shares a luxurious but Read More

Spawn

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: John Leguizamo, Michael Jai White, Martin Sheen, Theresa Randle, Melinda Clarke

Synopsis: One of the most popular independent comic books of its decade was transformed into this dark, bloody adventure intended to launch a profitable superhero franchise. Michael Jai White stars as Al Simmons, a corrupt assassin betrayed and murdered by his evil government supervisor, Jason Wynn (Martin Sheen Read More

Heat

Actors: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Diane Venora

Synopsis: A successful career criminal considers getting out of the business after one last score, while an obsessive cop desperately tries to put him behind bars in this intelligent thriller written and directed by Michael Mann. Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) is a thief who specializes in big, risky jobs Read More

Johnny Mnemonic

Actors: Henry Rollins, Keanu Reeves, Dolph Lundgren, Beat Takeshi Kitano, Ice-T, Dina Meyer

Synopsis: In a near-future world in which the fast-paced digital lifestyle has given rise to a worldwide plague called Nerve Attenuation Syndrome, Johnny (Keanu Reeves), a data courier, accepts an assignment that he hopes will allow him to pay for the restoration of the childhood memories he dumped in order Read More

Jugular Wine: A Vampire Odyssey

Synopsis: This quirky horror film from director Blair Murphy involves an anthropologist whose research takes him to Alaska, where he is seduced into the world of the undead by a beautiful vampire. At once tormented and exhilarated by his newfound condition -- no longer fully human though not yet completely Read More

Demon Knight

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Billy Zane, Bill Sadler, Jada Pinkett Smith, Brenda Bakke, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: This first theatrical feature spun off from the television series Tales from the Crypt (which was in turn inspired by the infamous EC horror comics of the 1950s) concerns a mysterious man named Brayker (Bill Sadler), who arrives at a church-turned-rooming house in a small town in New Mexico. Hot Read More

The Crow

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Brandon Lee, Ernie Hudson, Michael Wincott, David Patrick Kelly, Angel David

Synopsis: Based on the graphic novel by James O'Barr, this fantasy follows Eric Draven (Brandon Lee), a rock musician who is murdered along with his fiancée Shelly (Sofia Shinas) by a group of marauding thugs who terrorize the decaying city in which they live. One year to the day after his death (which Read More

The Chase

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Kristy Swanson, Henry Rollins, Josh Mostel, Wayne Grace

Synopsis: This high-speed action comedy stars Charlie Sheen as Jack Hammond, who has been given a life sentence for a bank robbery that he didn't commit. Hammond manages to escape, and while trying to avoid capture at a gas station, he ends up kidnapping Natalie Voss (Kristy Swanson); he threatens her with Read More

Henry Rollins Goes to London

Synopsis: Punk rock renaissance man Henry Rollins takes his spoken word tour to the United Kingdom in this performance video. Henry Rollins Goes to London features the author and former Black Flag vocalist discussing recent visits to England and Australia, alcohol, the search for inspiration, and much more Read More

Henry Rollins: Talking From the Box

Synopsis: Henry Rollins' one-man spoken-word performance, captured on this video, demonstrates the versatility of this singer/writer. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Gang of Souls

Actors: William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Marianne Faithfull, Richard Hell

Synopsis: This documentary by filmmaker Maria Beatty explores the lives, careers, and creative inspirations of the beat poets, forging insight into the minds of such artists as Gregory Corso, Marianne Faithfull, Richard Hell, Allen Ginsberg, Lydia Lunch and Henry Rollins. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Read More

Light Years

Crew: Co-producer

Synopsis: Isaac Asimov wrote this animated sci-fi tale about the prince of the planet Gandahar, who is sent to the future in order to avenge an attack on his home world. The film is re-edited from the original French version (Ghandahar (1987), created and directed by Rene Laloux). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Read More

Desperate Teenage Lovedolls

Crew: Songwriter

Synopsis: A comically punky version of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls , Desperate Teenage Lovedolls tells the story of three disaffected young girls who leave home to become rock stars. Lead singer Kitty Carryall (Jennifer Schwartz), whose mother is played by a shrill, hysterical man in a dress, runs away Read More

Repo Man

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Olivia Barash, Tracey Walter, Sy Richardson

Synopsis: Alex Cox's directorial debut was a wickedly funny and willfully bizarre story that became a major cult item once it began making the art-house rounds a year after its release (an initial run in a string of Southern grind houses and drive-ins, where it was billed as an action film, was a resounding Read More

In the Mix: Teen Solutions to Racism

Actors: David Alan Grier, Henry Rollins, Run-D.M.C.

In the Mix: Racism - Erase the Hate