Riding the Rails
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Movie Reviews of Riding the Rails
Movie Review: A real eye opener
Summary: 5 Stars
Words in the book, by the same name, don't create the same images as the DVD does. Here are the real stories of the real people who lived on the rails and survived to tell about it. Spell binding tales of leaving home and being asked to leave... because there was something better, someplace else... because the family could't afford to feed / support another child. Children setting out on their own to seek... who knows what. My teenage son 'got-it' when my Father and he sat down to watch it.Movie Review: Riding the Rails
Summary: 5 Stars
Featuring archival footage of the period and a folk song score from Woody Guthrie (and other balladeers of the time), the films' most memorable sequences are the interviews with the now elderly, respectable folks who eked out existences as young hoboes during the Depression, but still recall the sheer romance and adventure of hopping those freights. A heartwarming glimpse into a defining moment for our country, and how a hearty generation adapted.Movie Review: Ride the Rails is just the sort of quality program you'd expect from PBS
Summary: 5 Stars
Quality, insightful program about teens riding the rails during the depression, giving an excellent insight into life during the depression in America.
This program makes excellent use of vintage footage along side current (2003) interviews with articulate, thoughtful, and sometimes emotional former rail riders.
Just the sort of quality you'd expect from a PBS program (Great music, too).
Movie Review: Riding the Rails
Summary: 5 Stars
An outstanding film! The art direction and editing has produced a remarkable account of the plight of the young during the Great Depression. The stories told by my father and his brothers are brought to life in this visual prose.Movie Review: Powerful Images
Summary: 5 Stars
A very powerful DVD about a bygone era that makes our current recession look like a day in the park!
Very informative and educational. I now really understand what my parents generation went through.