Meet the Z-Boys -- a group of brash street kids from Venice, California's tough Dogtown neighborhood, who revolutionized skateboarding with an aggressive in-your-face style that shredded the competition and totally influenced today's extreme sports. Narrated by Sean Penn and featuring old-school skating footage, a blistering soundtrack and riveting interviews with skateboarding icons Tony Alva, Jay Adams and Tony Hawk, this award-winning documentary is an historic, no-holds-barred, behind-the-scenes look at the birth of a cultural phenomenon, and the inspiration for the thrilling feature film LORDS OF DOGTOWN.