The Salt Mines (1990)
• October 1st, 1990 • 0h 47min
Documentary
Overview
Explores the lives of Sara, Gigi and Giovanna, three Latino transvestites who for years have lived on the streets of Manhattan supporting their drug addictions through prostitution. They made their temporary home inside broken garbage trucks that the Sanitation Department keeps next to the salt deposits used in the winter to melt the snow. The three friends share the place known as "The Salt Mines".
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Turtles Are Always Home
Released on: 2016-02-15
Documentary, Drama
I left Lebanon in 2006. For the past 10 years I lived in 7 countries, 10 cities, and 21 homes. I sle...
Guest House
Released on: 2018-09-20
Documentary
Three women in a re-entry house experience the reality of reintegration and attempt to acclimate to ...
She's Beautiful When She's Angry
Released on: 2014-12-05
Documentary
A documentary that resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founde...
This Time Next Year
Released on: 2014-11-22
Documentary
A poetic documentation of the Long Beach Island, NJ community as they battle local politics, cope wi...
Edinburgh
Released on: 1934-01-01
Documentary
Directed by Marion Grierson, who ran the film unit of the Travel and Industrial Development Associat...
On Native Soil
Released on: 2006-08-22
Documentary
The film analyzes the efforts by the families of 9/11 victims to create the 9/11 Commission and what...
Beyond Right & Wrong: Stories of Justice and Forgiveness
Released on: 2012-10-05
Documentary
A survivor of the Rwandan Genocide struggles to forgive the man who killed her children. A victim’s...
The American Nurse
Released on: 2014-05-08
Documentary
THE AMERICAN NURSE is a heart-warming film that explores some of the biggest issues facing America -...
The Oldest LESBIAN in the World!
Released on: 2011-04-01
Documentary
Nearing 100 years old, a national treasure, Bobby Staff whimsically exposes a rare and revealing ins...
Chickies, Babies & Wannabees
Released on: 2000-01-13
Documentary
Documentary about teenage mothers, their boyfriends and their babies.
Mustang: The House That Joe Built
Released on: 1977-07-27
Documentary
A documentary about the girls of the Mustang Ranch, a legal brothel in Nevada.
Displaced Perssons
Released on: 2013-08-23
Drama, Documentary
Per Persson left Sweden 40 years ago. In Pakistan he fell in love and became the father of two daugh...
The Story of Mothers & Daughters
Released on: 1997-01-01
Documentary
This poignant documentary from directors Judith Leonard, Catherine Ryan and Gary Weimberg explores t...
O Seasons, O Castles
Released on: 1958-05-01
Documentary
A short documentary on the chateaux of the Loire in France was commissioned by the French Tourist Bu...
Judgement in Hungary
Released on: 2013-04-28
Documentary
Hungary was the site of serial murders on ethnic basis. Over the course of one year, the murderers k...
Seven Rivers Walking - Haere Mārire
Released on: 2017-08-19
Documentary
Documentary about the degraded rivers of Canterbury, New Zealand.
The Blooms of Banjeli
Released on: 1986-01-01
Documentary
The Blooms of Banjeli documents research in Banjeli, Togo on iron-smelting technology, its rituals, ...
Welcome to São Paulo
Released on: 2004-07-16
Drama, Documentary
All the feature is given prestige to by the narration in Caetano Veloso's voice, that also signs one...
Loretta Lynn: My Story In My Words
Released on: 2021-02-27
Documentary, Music
2021 marks the 50th anniversary of "Coal Miner’s Daughter," the Loretta Lynn song that became a book...
I Am My Own Woman
Released on: 1992-10-30
Drama, Documentary
The life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who survived the Nazi reign as a trans woman and helped s...