Pirate Radio Movies

  • 1973
    American Graffiti

    American Graffiti

    American Graffiti

    7.061973HD

    A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.

    American Graffiti
  • 2009
    The Boat That Rocked

    The Boat That Rocked

    The Boat That Rocked

    7.2232009HD

    When a group of rebellious deejays decides to defy the ban on government-censored music, they take to the seas to broadcast music and mayhem to...

    The Boat That Rocked
  • 1990
    Pump Up the Volume

    Pump Up the Volume

    Pump Up the Volume

    7.11990HD

    Mark Hunter, a lonely high school student, uses his shortwave radio to moonlight as the popular pirate DJ "Hard Harry." When his show gets blamed for...

    Pump Up the Volume
  • 1983
    Born in Flames

    Born in Flames

    Born in Flames

    6.21983HD

    In near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising...

    Born in Flames
  • 2000
    One Hundred Steps

    One Hundred Steps

    One Hundred Steps

    7.7722000HD

    Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s Sicily. Despite hailing from a family with Mafia ties and living just one hundred steps...

    One Hundred Steps
  • 1973
    The Dirty Mind of Young Sally

    The Dirty Mind of Young Sally

    The Dirty Mind of Young Sally

    5.11973HD

    Sally runs a mobile "pirate" radio station--which she operates from her van--where, in her sexy and sultry voice, she encourages her listeners...

    The Dirty Mind of Young Sally
  • 2021
    8 Bar – The Evolution of Grime

    8 Bar – The Evolution of Grime

    8 Bar – The Evolution of Grime

    62021HD

    They called it young black kids’ punk rock - a genre that radio stations wouldn’t play and records that labels refused to sell. But grime...

    8 Bar – The Evolution of Grime
  • 1983
    Piratene

    Piratene

    Piratene

    71983HD

    The film follows a gang of unemployed youth in the little town of Svolvær, Lofoten, starting up an illegal radio-channel called "Radio...

    Piratene
  • 1998
    Radiofreccia

    Radiofreccia

    Radiofreccia

    7.0521998HD

    April 24, 1993: it's the last broadcast of Radiofreccia, an independent radio station closing after 18 years, barely one minute before coming of age....

    Radiofreccia
  • 2024
    Underdog: The Andy Swallow Story

    Underdog: The Andy Swallow Story

    Underdog: The Andy Swallow Story

    62024HD

    From hooliganism and violence through to the ecstasy and the rise of rave culture, Andy Swallow, co-founder of West Ham's ICF and later Centreforce...

    Underdog: The Andy Swallow Story
  • 1991
    Young Soul Rebels

    Young Soul Rebels

    Young Soul Rebels

    5.51991HD

    Two disc jockeys have a friend's murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London.

    Young Soul Rebels
  • 2002
    Something in the Air

    Something in the Air

    Something in the Air

    6.72002HD

    Based on the true story of four friends who decide to install a communal pirate radio station called Rádio Favela in a shanty-town, to give...

    Something in the Air
  • 2017
    The Last Pirates: Britain's Rebel DJs

    The Last Pirates: Britain's Rebel DJs

    The Last Pirates: Britain's Rebel DJs

    102017HD

    Rapper Rodney P. presents the story of Britain's second wave of pirate radio DJs. In the 1980s a new generation of pirate radio stations appeared...

    The Last Pirates: Britain's Rebel DJs
  • 2025
    40 Watts from Nowhere

    40 Watts from Nowhere

    40 Watts from Nowhere

    02025HD

    Frustrated by commercial radio in the ’90s, a music-loving legal secretary builds one from scratch and runs it out of her LA apartment.

    40 Watts from Nowhere
  • 2007
    Space Hackers

    Space Hackers

    Space Hackers

    02007HD

    The '60s. Achille and Giovanni Judica-Cordiglia, two amateur radio enthusiasts, listened to sound from space with home-built equipment in their...

    Space Hackers
  • 1982
    Good Evening to You

    Good Evening to You

    Good Evening to You

    6.81982HD

    Stathis is a teenager who owns a pirate radio station that broadcasts at the same frequency used by another pirate radio station, owned by Stamatis...

    Good Evening to You
  • 1987
    Border Radio

    Border Radio

    Border Radio

    5.61987HD

    Two musicians and a roadie take money that is owed to them from a job. One flees to Mexico, and everyone has questions.

    Border Radio
  • 2004
    Working Slowly (Radio Alice)

    Working Slowly (Radio Alice)

    Working Slowly (Radio Alice)

    6.42004HD

    Bologna, 1976. The paths of two aimless young friends intertwine with those of Radio Alice, a pirate radio politically aligned with the leftist...

    Working Slowly (Radio Alice)
  • 2014
    Pirates of the Airwaves

    Pirates of the Airwaves

    Pirates of the Airwaves

    72014HD

    In 1966 a group of determined young men defied the New Zealand government and launched a pirate radio station aboard a ship in the Hauraki Gulf.

    Pirates of the Airwaves
  • 1979
    On the Air Live with Captain Midnight

    On the Air Live with Captain Midnight

    On the Air Live with Captain Midnight

    91979HD

    A suburban teen starts a pirate radio station in the back of his van and becomes a cult hero.

    On the Air Live with Captain Midnight