United Skates

United Skates

201889 min7.3 / 10

A documentary celebrating a vibrant, predominantly Black roller-skating subculture fighting to preserve community spaces against economic and social pressures.

When America's last standing roller rinks are threatened with closure, a community of thousands battle in a racially charged environment to save an underground subculture.

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