Cult Documentary Series • 1999 • Six Episodes
Rebels:
A Journey Underground
How outsiders, rebels, and visionaries shaped modern culture.
A dark, cinematic portal into the history of counterculture — from Romantic rebels and Bohemians to the Beat Generation, 1960s revolutionaries, punk explosion, radical activism, and the dawn of cyberculture.
The Underground Has a Memory
A six-part journey through cultural refusal.
This is not nostalgia. It is a map of the people and movements that challenged the mainstream before the mainstream knew how to name them.
Through rare interviews, archival energy, and hard-edged cultural storytelling, Rebels: A Journey Underground positions rebellion as an engine of art, music, politics, technology, fashion, and identity.
Narrated by Kiefer Sutherland
“The underground does not ask permission. It leaves evidence.”
Episodes
Six movements. One underground pulse.
Each episode runs approximately 47 minutes and builds a timeline from early cultural dissent to the internet age.
The underground is resurfacing. Rebels: A Journey Underground will soon be available through a new international streaming platform.
Episode 01 • Origins of Cultural Rebellion
Society’s Shadow
The roots of outsider thought: Romanticism, Bohemia, and the early refusal to live by approved scripts.
Episode 02 • The Beat Generation Gets Hip
A New Kind of Bohemian
Post-war conformity cracks open as writers, poets, jazz minds, and restless travellers build a new language of refusal.
Episode 03 • Counterculture and Psychedelic Revolution
Turn On the Revolution
The 1960s erupt into music, protest, experimentation, democratic urgency, and a radical rethink of perception.
Episode 04 • The Punk Rebellion of the 1970s
A Riot of My Own
Punk strips culture down to nerve, volume, anger, wit, and a new do-it-yourself critique of power.
Episode 05 • Radical Environmentalism in the New Age
Earth Trauma
Grassroots ecological resistance moves from idealism to direct action as environmental rebels confront industry and state power.
Episode 06 • The Internet Rebels
Welcome to Cyberia
The underground enters the network age, where hackers, cyber-thinkers, and digital communities imagine the next frontier.
The Filmmakers
Built like a cultural dossier.
Kevin Alexander
Director. Alexander’s direction frames underground history as a living sequence of artistic, political, and technological ruptures.
Dave Schultz
Producer. Schultz’s producing role anchors the series as a broadcast-ready cultural history with a strong archive-driven identity.
Rebels Gallery / Featured Voices
Faces from the edge of culture.
Meet some of the people featured in Rebels: A Journey Underground. Click on the archival interview stills to explore their personal backgrounds, cultural impact, and role in the series.
Shop / Merch
Wear the rebellion.
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Contact Us
Bring the underground back into the light.
For streaming, licensing, press, merch, partnership, or archive inquiries, contact the Rebels team directly.
info@rebelsajourneyunderground.com
About the Series
Rebellion is a lineage.
Rebels: A Journey Underground is a six-part documentary series presented here as a cult documentary archive and streaming destination. Use this section for confirmed credits, legal copy, links, newsletter signup, social channels, and rights notices.