The Great American Hobo produced in 1980 features the music of Supertramp's "Take the Long Way Home" documenting the men and women who rode freight trains. Shot in 14 states and culminates with the Hobo Convention in Britt Iowa. Premiered the Independent Eye series for PBS in 1980.
Just as the original hobos of the early 20th century were scorned the mainstream of society, so too ...
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...
A "scenic picture from a hobo's point of view".
Irish director John T Davis stashes a camera in his bedroll, catches out, and rides the rails from M...
The story of a young boy so obsessed with placing pennies on the railroad tracks that it's in fact t...
Boy Scout Leader suffering from social isolation during a pandemic lock-down navigates the rocky pat...
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...
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterp...
Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant ...
A rich contractor sends his son to supervise the building of a new dam. His clothes are stolen by a ...
A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and lo...
A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrant...
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to he...
Moma is a hobo and suffers from depression. Ema is a hobo and had been treated for alcoholism. Moma ...
Masood and Hamid live in a room in the house of Louahez, they owe the people of the neighborhood a l...
Hobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone "ride the rails" for free.
There's a hobo on the loose in Manhatten and ... he has a high kick.
At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's f...