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Ian MacKaye

Actor · 43 credits · 10 in highly-rated films

Best known for Bad Brains: A Band in DC (2012)

Frequent collaborators: Henry Rollins, Joe Lally, Brendan Canty, Guy Picciotto, Jello Biafra

Best Ian MacKaye movies by genre

Movies (43 total, ranked by score)

  1. Bad Brains: A Band in DC

    2012 · ★ 6.2 (4 votes)

    Music, Documentary

    1

  2. American Hardcore

    2006 · ★ 6.8 (57 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    2

  3. What Drives Us

    2021 · ★ 6.8 (21 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    3

  4. Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records

    2018 · ★ 7.9 (15 votes)

    Documentary, History, Music

    4

  5. 924 Gilman Street

    2007

    Music, Documentary

    5

  6. Breadcrumb Trail

    2014 · ★ 7.6 (19 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    6

  7. Dither: The D.I.Y. Sound

    2013

    Documentary, Music

    7

  8. Parallel Planes

    2017 · ★ 6.0 (2 votes)

    8

  9. Instrument

    1999 · ★ 6.9 (25 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    9

  10. Drive: My Life in Skateboarding

    2003 · ★ 5.2 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    10

  11. Riot on the Dance Floor

    2014 · ★ 9.0 (2 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    11

  12. Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)

    2015 · ★ 7.0 (24 votes)

    Music, Documentary

    12

  13. We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen

    2005 · ★ 6.6 (16 votes)

    Documentary

    13

  14. I Need That Record!

    2008 · ★ 6.5 (14 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    14

  15. Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape

    2016 · ★ 6.4 (18 votes)

    Documentary

    15

  16. Don't Need You - The Herstory of Riot Grrrl

    2005 · ★ 7.0 (4 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    16

  17. Dope, Hookers and Pavement

    2020

    Documentary, Music

    17

  18. The Tony Alva Story

    2019 · ★ 10.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    18

  19. Another State of Mind

    1984 · ★ 6.1 (17 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    19

  20. Punk the Capital: Building a Sound Movement

    2019 · ★ 7.4 (5 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    20

  21. We Who Wait: The Adverts & TV Smith

    2012

    Documentary

    21

  22. I Really Get Into It: The Underage Architects of Sioux Falls Punk

    2020

    Documentary

    22

  23. The Outhouse: The Film 1985-1997

    2017

    Documentary, Music

    23

  24. Records Collecting Dust II

    2018 · ★ 7.0 (2 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    24

  25. Something Better Change

    2024

    Documentary

    25

  26. We Are Fugazi from Washington, D.C.

    2023 · ★ 6.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    26

  27. The Obsessed: The Documentary

    1994 · ★ 6.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    27

  28. Edge

    2009 · ★ 5.6 (7 votes)

    Documentary

    28

  29. Henry Rollins 50

    2011

    Comedy

    29

  30. Minor Threat - Live: DC Space-Buff Hall-930 Club

    2003

    Music, Documentary

    30

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 30, 2026.