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.
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A documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the...
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The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy La...
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A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the T...
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Comprised of video shot during the Nazi regime, including propaganda, newsreels, broadcasts and even...
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