The first time we see the group of mostly young adult dirt bikers cruising down the streets of lower class Baltimore neighborhoods in “12 O’Clock Boys,” the speed and intensity of their risky, ...

When we first meet Pug he’s a bright 13-year-old living in a rowhouse in Baltimore, spending his time idolizing the dirt-bike gang that tears and zips through downtown. Lotfy Nathan’s 12 O’Clock Boys ...

In ways that won’t be surprising to fans of “The Wire,” Baltimore is a character as well. We see a variety of neighborhoods as the riders course through the town, as the cops don’t actively chase them ...

The uneven documentary "12 O'Clock Boys" is curiously nonjudgmental toward its subject, an inner-city group of dirt-bike and ATV riders who travel Baltimore's streets en masse, weaving through traffic ...

Lofty Nathan did not plan to be a filmmaker. He was pursuing his dream of becoming a painter at MICA in Baltimore when he saw the Baltimore dirt bike riders in action. Six years and plenty of ...

2 Russians, 2 Jews, and a Puerto Rican walk into a bar ...

Dirt bike riders in a still from the documentary "12 O'Clock Boys." (Noah Rabinowitz) They're called "12 O'Clock Boys" because in order to be one you have to be able to pop a totally vertical wheelie.