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.
A "scenic picture from a hobo's point of view".
Documentary - Ernest Borgnine, star of the classic train movie Emperor of the North, hosts and narra...
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...
Irish director John T Davis stashes a camera in his bedroll, catches out, and rides the rails from M...
An irresponsible preppie, Preston West, is presumed to have murdered his parents for a sizable inher...
Moma is a hobo and suffers from depression. Ema is a hobo and had been treated for alcoholism. Moma ...
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...
A piece of writing with real danger and which focuses on a mysterious mafia of violent Viet Nam Vets...
A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrant...
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterp...
While shooting a documentary on the suspicious disappearances within the homeless community, a filmm...
Hobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone "ride the rails" for free.
Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant ...
Charlie Chaplin meets a hobo and he is in desperately in need of food and shelter. What transpires i...
As a solar flare is heading towards Earth, a family man named Arthur befriends a homeless man and fa...
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to he...
The fanatic beliefs of an internet mystic, a cult leader, and a rookie cop gone rogue are tested on ...