Punk examines the conditions that created the genre and its enduring influence on music, fashion and culture. ... There’s also a glimpse into the origins of Punk magazine and how the term was largely dismissed by the bands first described that way. Many luminaries of the scene weigh in.

Where a great punk show is all wild crowds, frenetic energy and the pulse of the contemporary cultural moment, Punk is individual punk rock elders striding slo-mo into the frame from the shadowy depths of an empty industrial space to perch themselves on leather-couch pedestals bathed in almost hagiographic light to wax at length about their contrarian youths.