Product Details

• Actors: The Roller Girls
• Directors: Lainy Bagwell, Lacey Leavitt
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Strand Releasing
• DVD Release Date: February 23, 2010
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002VN8C0Y
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #61,238 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Blood on the Flat Track" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Studio: Strand Releasing Release Date: 02/23/2010 Run time: 95 minutes Rating: Nr

Customer Reviews

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Derby addict nirvana, February 24, 2010

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I'm fresh meat on a league in AZ. I find that roller derby has consumed me until it's what I want to eat, breathe, and live. Yet even as I go to practices, skate, and watch bouts it's not enough for me. I want MORE roller derby. More, More More, More. I want to read about it, see it, train for it, cross train for it, market it, talk about it, hear about it, learn about it, and watch it. If you have been afflicted with a roller derby addiction like me you will love this documentary. It shows the girls, the drama, the cameraderie, the physicality, the insanity, the frustration, the time commitment, and the joy of this sport. Regardless of what you think of their style of rough skating, it's compelling to watch. Plus as a newbie it inspires me to want to train harder, skate against them, and give those girls some blocks of my own. If you love derby or are thinking about doing derby, this is the movie that I think best conveys the passion people feel for this sport.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Real Flat-track Derby love, November 30, 2009

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E. Reel "Ragnarok" (California, USA) - See all my reviews
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This is a great documentary of a critical and formative peice of the Women's Flat Track derby revolution. This film honestly and accurately gets to a lot of the core of why this is the fastest growing sport in the United States: Why it is more of a social movement than a sport and what it really involves. Ignore the packaging, or take it as camp. This film has some great derby footage and information and gives modern flat-track derby the respect it deserves. This film attempts, about as well as a documentary can, short of a full top-level live bout, of conveying the speed, power, sheer athleticism, emotion, and skill of modern women's flat-track derby. The film also does not shy away from the emotional and social aspects of flat-track derby and refuses to get hooked into the superficial [and usually sexist] "marketing" of derby that still haunts the sport. This is the film that cuts through the hype and gets to the truth, as all good documentaries do. Besides, the Rat city story, as is the KC [first national champions], and the Austin [inventors of the modern flat-track game] stories, is a great story in and of itself and thank god, someone documented it [with all due respect and full kudos to [...] TV for their part in documenting the Puget Sound flat-track phenomenon].

10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good documentary poorly packaged, November 21, 2009

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Rhias K. Hall "Bad Influence" (Seattle, Wa.) - See all my reviews
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Despite the hideous 70's era porn packaging, Blood on the Flat Track is a fun documentary about the Seattle Roller Derby scene. It is a movie about dedication, athleticism, and the inspirational can-do attitude of a group of talented hard-working women.

It is unfortunate that it is being described as a "sexy" documentary, because selling it that way does a huge disservice to the film and to the women depicted in it.

Modern roller derby is the only sport I can think of where the athletes themselves make the decisions, book and run the events, and compete in them. It is a real shame that people think the only way to market kick-ass women is by showing them flashing their panties on the box cover.