In Popular Culture
- 1955 - Gene Kelly used roller skates as part of a dance routine in It's Always Fair Weather.
- 1971 - The song Brand New Key by Melanie Safka uses roller skates as a theme.
- 1975 - Rollerball - A dystopian SciFi centered around a roller skate based tournament.
- 1979 - Roller Boogie with Linda Blair
- 1980 - Xanadu, with Olivia Newton-John, has rollerskating as a recurring theme.
- 1980 - Heaven's Gate with Kris Kristofferson and Christopher Walken, which is set in 1890s Wyoming, features a scene in an early roller skating
- 1995 - "Man of the House" features a scene where Jonathan Taylor Thomas uses early model rollerblades to get around Seattle.
- 1998 - In the Disney Channel Original Movie Brink!, in-line skating is presented as an extreme competition for teens in California.
- 2005 - The plot of the film Roll Bounce centered around a group of teenagers who compete in a rollerskating competition in the late 1970s.
- 2006 - In the movie ATL, set in Atlanta, the protagonist – rapper, T.I. – and his friends had a great love for skating.
- 2008 - MTV's Americas Best Dance Crew auditioned Breaksk8, a group of Hip Hop dancers on roller skates.
- 2008 - The songs "Seventies" by Laurent Wolf and "Kim&Jessie" by M83, featured the "Miss'ile" skate dancers
- 2009 - The movie Whip It, starring Ellen Page and Drew Barrymore – Barrymore also directing – centers around a small-town girl who joins a hard core all-girl roller derby team.
- 2010 - In the movie Skateland, starring Shiloh Fernandez and Ashley Greene, which is set in the 1980s, when roller skating was very popular and many teenagers used to go to roller rinks.
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