Teenage

2013

Documentary / History

Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 77% · 66 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 49% · 2.5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 924 924

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Plot summary

Teenagers did not exist before the 20th century. Not until the early 1950s did the term gain widespread recognition, but "Teenage" offers compelling evidence that teenagers had a tumultuous effect on the previous half-decade.

Director

Matt Wolf Photo
Matt Wolf

Top cast

Ben Whishaw Photo
Ben Whishaw as British Boy
Jena Malone Photo
Jena Malone as American Girl
Alden Ehrenreich Photo
Alden Ehrenreich as 1940s Teenager
Ben Rosenfield Photo
Ben Rosenfield as Tommie Scheel
720p.WEB
715.17 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 17 min
Seeds 29

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by cekadah 8 / 10

A look into the youth in 20th century

I'm only giving 8 stars because I feel this documentary didn't quite achieve it's purpose. It's intention is to show the growth of the youth culture in the 20th Century and it does show this but it seems to get lost in the telling.It shows youth at labor, youth in politics, youth at war. And that became a problem for me because I see the youth culture as a targeted element for merchandising and capitalist profits. Well this documentary does show that element but it is so overshadowed by historical events it's easy to lose focus on it's growth while also showing the social & political changes in the western world from 1900 to 1950. Plus the youth at leisure is limited almost exclusively to the 'moneyed class'! Otherwise this is a fine documentary and well told.
Reviewed by JonathanWalford 8 / 10

More interesting than you might think doc about the origins of the Teenager

This is an excellent documentary with fabulous original footage and excellent historical research that raises many salient points about the origins of teenage culture. It gets a little lost along the way when the story veers towards racial tension and unemployment protests in the 1930s as these are not exclusively youth issues and did not originate from youthful protest. There were also some elements played down, such as the studied attention to market products to teenage tastes - a trend that grew rapidly in America during the 1920s and 1930s. When the documentary ends, in 1945, the world is set for the deluge of teenage culture to descend, and I wanted to see more of this - perhaps in another documentary...
Reviewed by AtRise2020 6 / 10

Too adolescent

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