Watch Riding the Rails

Archival footage and newsreel interviews featuring kids full of bravado tells the unforgettable story of 250,000 teenagers who left their homes and hopped freight trains during the Great Depression. Winner of a Peabody Award in 1998, this rare film will inform, dazzle and profoundly move you.

Riding the Rails is a 1997 documentary with a runtime of 1 hour and 12 minutes. It has received mostly positive reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 7.6.