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.
Documentary - Ernest Borgnine, star of the classic train movie Emperor of the North, hosts and narra...
John T. Davis stashes a camera in his bedroll, catches out, and rides the rails from Minneapolis to ...
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...
A "scenic picture from a hobo's point of view".
While shooting a documentary on the suspicious disappearances within the homeless community, a filmm...
A man named Mr. Smith delivers a woman's baby during a shootout, and is then called upon to protect ...
A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and lo...
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...
The fanatic beliefs of an internet mystic, a cult leader, and a rookie cop gone rogue are tested on ...
Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman find their lives altered by the arrival of a 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 ...
At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's f...
Boy Scout Leader suffering from social isolation during a pandemic lock-down navigates the rocky pat...
The story of four young people, ShinAe Ahn who is transgender, and three others, pan-sexual, gay, an...
After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond....