Riding the Rails offers a visionary perspective on the presumed romanticism of the road and cautionary legacy of the Great Depression. The filmmakers relay the experiences and painful recollections of these now-elderly survivors of the rails. Forced to travel more by economic necessity than the spirit of adventure, the film's subjects dispel romantic myths of a hobo existence and its corresponding veneer of freedom. Riding the Rails recounts the hoboes' trade secrets for survival and accounts of dank miseries, loneliness, imprisonment, death, and dispossession. Sixty years later, the filmmakers transport their subjects back to the tracks, where the surging impact of sound and movement resuscitates memories of a shattered adolescence and devastating rite of passage.
Killing Your Daughter
TV Movie, Thriller
4.9
12 Angry Men
Drama
8.5
Citizen Kane
Mystery, Drama
8.0
Parasite
Comedy, Thriller, Drama
8.5
Interstellar
Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction
8.4
Gandhi
Drama, History
7.6
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Crime, Drama
8.1
GoodFellas
Drama, Crime
8.5
Good Morning, Vietnam
Comedy, Drama, War
7.3
Full Metal Jacket
Drama, War
8.1
Get Out
Mystery, Thriller, Horror
7.6
Joker
Crime, Thriller, Drama
8.2
Spirited Away
Animation, Family, Fantasy
8.5
Castle in the Sky
Adventure, Fantasy, Animation, Action, Family, Romance
8.0
Nomadland
Drama
7.2
The Shape of Water
Drama, Fantasy, Romance
7.2
The Handmaiden
Thriller, Drama, Romance
8.2
The Hurt Locker
Drama, Thriller, War
7.3
Lost in Translation
Drama, Romance
7.4
Forrest Gump
Comedy, Drama, Romance
8.5
Living the Utopia
Documentary, History
7.4
Scars Of Nanking
Documentary, Drama, History, War
6.0
38
Documentary
7.0
Will It Happen Again?
Documentary, History
0.0
Mallorca
Documentary
5.0
Le Baron et l'Empereur : Japon, la voie de la guerre
Documentary, History, TV Movie
8.0
Atatürk, père de la Turquie moderne
Documentary, History, TV Movie
8.0
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice
Documentary, History
6.2
World's Greatest Logging Site
Documentary
7.5
Paris on Parade
Documentary
6.0
Nanking
Documentary, Drama, History
7.2
Land Without Bread
Documentary
7.1
The Olympic Dream: 1936 Nazi Games
Documentary, History
6.5
Hitler's Evil Science
Documentary, History, TV Movie
6.9
Words for an End of the World
Documentary, History
6.4
Landauer: Gefeiert, verbannt, vergessen
Documentary
0.0
Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell
Documentary
2.0
La ruta de don Quijote
Documentary
5.2
For Twenty Cents A Day
Documentary, History
0.0
The American Hobo: History of the Railriding Worker
Documentary
6.5