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.

Documentary - Ernest Borgnine, star of the classic train movie Emperor of the North, hosts and narra...

Riding the Rails offers a visionary perspective on the presumed romanticism of the road and cautiona...

Just as the original hobos of the early 20th century were scorned the mainstream of society, so too ...

The Great American Hobo produced in 1980 features the music of Supertramp's "Take the Long Way Home"...

A "scenic picture from a hobo's point of view".

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 ...

Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterp...

A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrant...

Hobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone "ride the rails" for free.

Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to he...

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 ...

A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and lo...

At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's f...
A hungry hobo gets his food taken by a greedy little pigeon.

A couple of roving vagabonds hitch a freight to the railroad town of Linda, and between bouts with t...

After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond....

Masood and Hamid live in a room in the house of Louahez, they owe the people of the neighborhood a l...

A rich contractor sends his son to supervise the building of a new dam. His clothes are stolen by a ...