"The Legend of Cool 'Disco' Dan" is the story of black Washington DC told from the perspective of Cool "Disco" Dan starting with his birth during the civil rights era and follows his life parallel with the rise of Go-Go music through the 1980s (which is the unheard but yet dominant urban music of DC) and also local DC politics with Marion Barry's rise and fall. Despite ending up homeless Cool "Disco" Dan used graffiti to escape the social problems D.C. had in the 1980s when things turned violent and became known as the Murder Capital of the United States. Cool "Disco" Dan ends up as a cult character of DC and his name becomes a symbol of survival during DC's most trying years.
Joseph Pattisall
Director
Cool 'Disco' Dan
Himself
Henry Rollins
Narrator
Marion Barry
Himself
Chuck Brown
Himself
Gregory 'Sugar Bear' Elliott
Himself
Big Tony Fisher
Himself
Paul Hendrickson
Himself
Andre 'Whiteboy' Johnson
Himself
Seth Hurwitz
Himself
Narco Cultura70%
Cocaine Cowboys72%
Trainwreck: Balloon Boy58%
13th78%
Cobain: Montage of Heck76%
Everybody’s Everything84%
Room 23761%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
Chaos: The Manson Murders61%
The Menendez Brothers72%
Exit Through the Gift Shop75%
LA Originals69%
Above Majestic73%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
Tongues Untied66%
The Crash69%
O.J.: Made in America84%
180° South72%
Whitney73%
HyperNormalisation74%
