The American Experience: Riding the Rails Movie Review 1997

Footage, letters, folk songs, and interviews recount the lives of some 25,000 Depression-era teenagers who hopped aboard freight trains in search of a better life.

Distribution

Civil War Standard/Historic Rail/Historic Air, 121 5th Ave. NW, Ste. 300, St. Paul, MN 55112-3220, Toll-free: 800-961-1861, Fax: (651)635-0700, Email: info@CivilWarStandard.com, URL: http://www.CivilWarStandard.com, Remarks: Historic Rail toll-free:(800)261-5922 Historic Rail web site: www.HistoricRail.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 72 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Documentary Films, Trains, Poverty

Director

Michael Uys, Lexy Lovell