THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
Type of media Video
Approved Running time 96m 10s
BBFCInsight strong language, sex references, racist and discriminatory language
Genre(s) Documentary, Music
Director(s) Penelope Spheeris
Cast includes Alice Bag, Claude Bessey, Don Bolles, Dinah Cancer, Exene Cervenka, Philo Cramer, Darby Crash, John Doe, Lorna Doom, Frank Gargani, Bill Gazzarri
Cut This work was passed uncut.
BBFCinsight publication date 16/06/2015
Note: The following text may contain spoilers
THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION is a music documentary about the LA punk scene in the early 1980s.
- Language
Frequent use of strong language ('f**k').
- Sex
There are strong verbal references to oral sex and to a man's violent sexual fantasy.
- Discrimination
There is a single use of the word 'nigger' when a man is being interviewed.
During a performance a singer begins to call the crowd 'faggots' in order to provoke them into rioting; the man also asks whether any 'queers' are at his show.
There are verbal references to marijuana and speed.
Details
- Title
- THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
- Year
- 2015
- Distributor(s)
- Second Sight Films
- Classified date(s)
- 15/06/2015
- Main language
- English
- Submitted run time
- 96m 10s
- BBFC reference
- AVV327585
- Remarks
- Full Frame
Components List
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- 01:36:10:11
- THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVLISATION
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Video
| Title | Type | Runtime | Cut | Distributor | Date | Certificate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION | Second Sight Films | 15/06/2015 |  27 |
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