Ian MacKaye
Known for: Acting
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ian Thomas Garner MacKaye (born April 16, 1962) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, musician, label owner, and producer. Active since 1979, MacKaye is best known for being the frontman of the influential hardcore punk band Minor Threat, the post-hardcore bands Embrace and Fugazi, as well as The Evens. He is a co-founder and owner of Dischord Records, a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label. A key figure in the development of hardcore punk and an enthusiastic promoter of an independent-minded, do it yourself punk ethic, MacKaye also works as a producer, and has produced releases by Q and Not U, John Frusciante, 7 Seconds, Nation of Ulysses, Bikini Kill, Rites of Spring, Dag Nasty, and Rollins Band. Along with his seminal band Minor Threat, he is credited with coining the term "straight edge" to describe an ideology that eschews drug and alcohol abuse, though MacKaye has stated many times that he did not intend to turn it into a movement. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian MacKaye, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Series
Punk
Self
2019
Film
Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt
Self
2026
Film
Punk's Not Dead
Self
2007
Film
American Hardcore
Self
2006
Film
Bad Reputation
Self
2018
Film
Instrument
Self
1999
Film
Bones Brigade: An Autobiography
Self
2012
Film
The Tony Alva Story
Self
2019
Film
Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk
Self
2017
Film
We Who Wait: The Adverts & TV Smith
Self
2012
Minor Threat
Self
1983
Film
Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90)
Self
2015
Film
What Doesn’t Kill Me: The Life and Music of Vic Chesnutt
Self
2016
Film
The Obsessed: The Documentary
1994
Film
Punk Rock Vegan Movie
Self
2023
Film
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen
Self
2005
Film
Quest for Sleep
Self
2003
Film
Punk the Capital: Building a Sound Movement
Self
2019
Film
The Outhouse: The Film 1985-1997
2017
Film
Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape
Self
2016
Film
Bad Brains: A Band in DC
Self
2012
Film
Breadcrumb Trail
Himself
2014
Film
You Can Color Outside the Lines... The Big Boys
2018
Film
Riot on the Dance Floor
Self
2014
Film
Don't Need You - The Herstory of Riot Grrrl
Himself
2005
Film
We Are Fugazi from Washington, D.C.
Self (archive footage)
2023
Film
L7: Pretend We're Dead
Self (archive footage)
2017
Film
What Drives Us
Self
2021
Film
Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind
Self
2011
Film
Cover Your Ears
Self
2023
Film
Drive: My Life in Skateboarding
Himself
2003
Film
Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records
Self
2018
D.I.Y. or Die: How to Survive as an Independent Artist
Self - Interviewee
2002
Film
Something Better Change
Self
2024
Film
Fugazi: Live in Front of The White House
1991
Film
Flipside Video Fanzine Number Two
1983
Film
The Dicks from Texas
2014
Film
Fugazi: Capitol Theater
1995
Film
Edge
Self
2009
Film
Positive Force: More Than a Witness - 30 Years of Punk Politics in Action
Himself
2014
Ian MacKaye Interview 7.8.05
Self
Film
I Need That Record!
Himself
2008
Film
Fugazi: Sacred Heart Church, Washington, DC
1991
Film
Fugazi: Forte Prenestino, Rome
1999
Film
Dope, Hookers and Pavement
2020
Film
Fugazi's Last Stop in Wisconsin
Himself
2010
Film
Dither: The D.I.Y. Sound
Himself
2013
Film
Fugazi: Live in Hamburg 1999
1999
Film
924 Gilman Street
Self
2007
Film
Another State of Mind
Himself
1984
Film
Minor Threat - Live: DC Space-Buff Hall-930 Club
Performer
2003
Film
Records Collecting Dust II
2018
Film
I Really Get Into It: The Underage Architects of Sioux Falls Punk
self
2020
Film
Henry Rollins 50
2011
Film
Parallel Planes
2017
Film
Vox Populi
2018
Ian MacKaye & Kevin Seconds - In Conversation
2025