Riding the Rails offers a visionary perspective on the presumed romanticism of the road and cautionary legacy of the Great Depression. The filmmakers relay the experiences and painful recollections of these now-elderly survivors of the rails. Forced to travel more by economic necessity than the spirit of adventure, the film's subjects dispel romantic myths of a hobo existence and its corresponding veneer of freedom. Riding the Rails recounts the hoboes' trade secrets for survival and accounts of dank miseries, loneliness, imprisonment, death, and dispossession. Sixty years later, the filmmakers transport their subjects back to the tracks, where the surging impact of sound and movement resuscitates memories of a shattered adolescence and devastating rite of passage.
Chain-smoking artists, poets and playwrights were among the colourful array of intellectuals living ...
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...
A showcase of German chancellor and Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler at the 1934 Nuremberg Rally.
During the brutal invasion of China in 1937 by Imperial Japanese forces, tens of thousands of civili...
From 1929 to 1939 Edgar Feuchtwanger lived across the street from Adolf Hitler in Munich Germany Fro...
This Traveltalks short showcases the Paris International Exposition of 1937. It features a tour of t...
A documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the...
An account of Adolf Hitler's rise and fall, his relationship with Eva Braun and their days of leisur...
The story of the rape of Nanking, one of the most tragic events in history. In 1937, the invading Ja...
How can the masses be controlled? Apparently, the American publicist Edward L. Bernays (1891-1995), ...
By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional acc...
While cleaning the apartment of Lucía, her deceased grandmother, Anna finds a notebook where she dis...
A documentary short on logging during winter season.
The story of black and mixed race people in Nazi Germany who were sterilised, experimented upon, tor...
Two brothers who could not have been more different. The eldest, Hermann Göring (1893-1946), was a p...
The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults is a two-hour live American television special that was broadcast ...
In 1936, 18 African American athletes dubbed the "black auxiliary" by Hitler defied Nazi Aryan Supre...
Comprised of video shot during the Nazi regime, including propaganda, newsreels, broadcasts and even...
Documentary - Ernest Borgnine, star of the classic train movie Emperor of the North, hosts and narra...