Travis Barker confronts the crash that changed his life in new documentary

Updated 25 August 2026, 16:00 CEST — Travis Barker released Travis Barker: Louder Than Fear on Disney+ internationally and Hulu in the United States

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The documentary returns to 19 September 2008, when a private jet crashed during take-off in Columbia, South Carolina. The Associated Press reports that four of the six people aboard died, while Barker and musician Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein survived. De Morgen’s new interview with Barker describes the physical and psychological aftermath as heavier than he had previously allowed others to see.

Barker suffered burns across 65% of his body and spent three months in hospital, according to the Los Angeles Times, which previously documented his treatment and dependence on prescription painkillers. The Associated Press says the new film follows Barker from 2017 to 2026 and records how post-traumatic stress left him unable to fly for years. He did not want the documentary to end while that fear still controlled him, Barker told the AP.

Drumming supplies the film’s connecting thread. Barker says in the documentary that playing became a form of therapy after his mother died during his childhood, according to the AP. The film traces his path from collecting rubbish in Laguna Beach to becoming Blink-182’s drummer, while musicians including Questlove, Tommy Lee and Stewart Copeland discuss his playing, the AP reports.

His relationship with Kourtney Kardashian also forms part of the later story. Australia’s ABC reports that the documentary presents their marriage and family life as central to Barker’s recovery and renewed willingness to fly. The couple married in 2022, according to the broadcaster, after a friendship that developed into a relationship.

For audiences in Belgium, the immediate impact is cultural rather than political or economic: De Morgen and Het Nieuwsblad have brought the documentary’s account to Flemish readers, while the film’s international release places it within the Belgian streaming market. No sequel or further documentary project has been announced. The next confirmed development is Barker’s continuing work with Blink-182; the film itself now stands as his fullest screen account of how trauma, family and drumming shaped the years after the crash.