John T. Davis stashes a camera in his bedroll, catches out, and rides the rails from Minneapolis to Seattle with Beargrease - a part-time hobo and full time philosopher, who narrates their way through the incredible scenery of the Northwest and gives us his views on life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Along the way, the pair meet with several other men living life on the margins.
Riding the Rails offers a visionary perspective on the presumed romanticism of the road and cautiona...
Documentary - Ernest Borgnine, star of the classic train movie Emperor of the North, hosts and narra...
The Great American Hobo produced in 1980 features the music of Supertramp's "Take the Long Way Home"...
Just as the original hobos of the early 20th century were scorned the mainstream of society, so too ...
A "scenic picture from a hobo's point of view".
A piece of writing with real danger and which focuses on a mysterious mafia of violent Viet Nam Vets...
A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrant...
A hungry hobo gets his food taken by a greedy little pigeon.
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterp...
A hobo named the Professor and his son, Charlie McCarthy, believe there's money buried in an abandon...
As a solar flare is heading towards Earth, a family man named Arthur befriends a homeless man and fa...
Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant ...
A man named Mr. Smith delivers a woman's baby during a shootout, and is then called upon to protect ...
The Weaver Brothers hit the road and taste the hobo's life in this, the sixth, entry in the eleven-f...
A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Te...
An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his hometown of Albany, New York after returning there for ...
At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's f...
Moma is a hobo and suffers from depression. Ema is a hobo and had been treated for alcoholism. Moma ...
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to he...
A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and lo...