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
5.2
12 Angry Men
Drama
8.5
Fight Club
Drama
8.4
Mad Max: Fury Road
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
7.6
Deadpool
Action, Adventure, Comedy
7.6
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Comedy, Drama
8.1
Captain America: The First Avenger
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
7.0
The Shawshank Redemption
Drama, Crime
8.7
Midsommar
Horror, Drama, Mystery
7.2
Back to the Future
Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction
8.3
Arrival
Drama, Science Fiction, Mystery
7.6
Get Out
Mystery, Thriller, Horror
7.6
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Adventure, Action, Science Fiction
7.3
Catch Me If You Can
Drama, Crime
8.0
Rear Window
Thriller, Mystery
8.4
The Wolf of Wall Street
Crime, Drama, Comedy
8.0
Napoleon
History, War, Romance, Drama
6.4
The Intouchables
Drama, Comedy
8.3
Oppenheimer
Drama, History
8.1
Inferno
Mystery, Thriller, Action
6.1
World's Greatest Logging Site
Documentary
7.5
38
Documentary
7.0
Cycle of Memory
Documentary
0.0
Experiment Stuka
Documentary, History
6.0
Living the Utopia
Documentary, History
7.5
The Hitler–Stalin Pact
Documentary, History, TV Movie
8.2
For Twenty Cents A Day
Documentary, History
0.0
Will It Happen Again?
Documentary, History
0.0
Dawn of the Nazis
Documentary, History, TV Movie
6.0
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice
Documentary, History
7.0
Land Without Bread
Documentary
7.1
Eliot Ness vs. Al Capone
Documentary, History, TV Movie
6.0
Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell
Documentary
2.0
The American Hobo: History of the Railriding Worker
Documentary
6.5
Landauer: Gefeiert, verbannt, vergessen
Documentary
0.0
Wake of '38
Documentary
0.0
The Great Depression: New Deal/New York
Documentary
0.0
The Money Masters
History, Documentary
7.3
La ruta de don Quijote
Documentary
5.2
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Documentary, TV Movie
7.5