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...
John T. Davis stashes a camera in his bedroll, catches out, and rides the rails from Minneapolis to ...
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".
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...
While shooting a documentary on the suspicious disappearances within the homeless community, a filmm...
Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant ...
A man named Mr. Smith delivers a woman's baby during a shootout, and is then called upon to protect ...
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to he...
A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and lo...
Hobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone "ride the rails" for free.
At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's f...
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 ...
A 10-year-old child prodigy cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he live...
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....
An aspiring theater producer convinces his wealthy uncle to finance a play on the condition that he ...