Mark är en intelligent men blyg tonåring som just har flyttat till Arizona från ostkusten. Hans föräldrar ger honom en kortvågsradio så han kan prata med sina vänner, men i stället etablerar han sig som pirat-dj:n Hårde Harry, som blir en hjälte för sina kamrater medan han upptänder stadens gymnasierektors vrede. När en av Harrys lyssnare begår självmord och Harry-inspirerat kaos utbryter på skolan kallas myndigheterna in för att sätta stopp för Harrys sändningar.
Från skaparen av Love Actually och Notting Hill kommer en resa tillbaka till det ljuva 60-talet när rockmusiken som inspirerade en generation också var den musik som censurerades av staten. När en grupp rebeller bestämmer sig för att ignorera förbudet drar de ut till sjöss för att sända musik och förödelse till miljoner beundrare. Soundtracken innehåller bland andra The Who, The Kinks, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie och The Rolling Stones.
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 from the house of local boss Tano Badalamenti, Peppino decides to expose the Mafia by using a pirate radio station to broadcast his political pronouncements in the form of ironic humour.
The film follows a gang of unemployed youth in the little town of Svolvær, Lofoten, starting up an illegal radio-channel called "Radio Feskslog".
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. Bruno, one of its founders, begins to tell its story, the story of a group of friends—especially troubled Freccia's—and a period of their youth in their small hometown.
Vännerna Tommy och Mike sänder piratradio. Lika älskade som de är av lyssnarna, lika hatade är de av den statliga radion. Radiochefen är Tommy och Mike i hälarna, men då kommer Mikes syster Irmgard till undsättning – med en radiosändare installerad i en husbil! Nu ger sig vännerna ut i Bayerns frodiga grönska, men lagens långa arm tänker inte låta dem komma undan så lätt.
Sally runs a mobile "pirate" radio station--which she operates from her van--where, in her sexy and sultry voice, she encourages her listeners (mostly teenagers) to use the music she plays "to ball by". She also takes calls from her listeners and even offers herself as a prize in a contest. Her show is so popular it winds up "turning on" large numbers of the local population. The authorities, of course, can't allow that to happen, so they send out the cops to find her and shut her down.
Two disc jockeys have a friend's murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London.
Bologna, 1976. The paths of two aimless young friends intertwine with those of Radio Alice, a pirate radio politically aligned with the leftist student movement.
A pirate radio, the girl next door, and a test of friendship.
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 and his friends. This leads to many conflicts between them, and as if this wasn't enough, Stathis is also desperately in love with Koula and has to face her huge boyfriend Kyriakos...
A suburban teen stars a pirate radio station in the back of his van and becomes a cult hero.
The '60s. Achille and Giovanni Judica-Cordiglia, two amateur radio enthusiasts, listened to sound from space with home-built equipment in their hometown of Turin. But one night, they recorded something quite different from the usual static that would change their lives forever...
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.
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 broadcasting from London tower blocks.
A loving portrait of a pirate radio station, which is run by the rural population with plenty of passion and talent in the face of opposition from the authorities.
En film om Radio Nord och dess verksamhet. Piratradiostationen, grundad av Jack S. Kotschack, vilken mellan 8 mars 1961 och 30 juni 1962 sände populärmusik, reklam och nyheter på mellanvåg från fartyget Bonjour på internationellt vatten utanför Stockholms skärgård, skildras i ord och bild.
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 voice to the outcasts' complaints.