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SUB-GENRES · Cycling · Automobile · Subway · Train
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Subway to the Former East Village
Richard Sandler’s gritty city symphony takes stock of New York’s Lower East Side with a decade’s worth of moments and encounters that would otherwise be lost to history. Working against gentrification’s erasures, he catalogues the neighborhood’s changes in their particularity:...Watch Movie
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Last Train Home
Every spring, China's cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year's holiday. This mass exodus is the world's largest human migration, an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial...Watch Movie
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Aerodrome
Set in upstate New York's Old Rhineback Aerodrome. This visually stunning documentary paints an intimate portrait of a group of pilots who not only transcend the modern world of aviation, but stay true to what pioneers held close to their hearts over one hundred years ago. With the oldest flying...Watch Movie
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The Bus
This is the remarkable story of the vehicle that became an icon. Anyone who has driven a Volkswagen Bus already knows that it's a nostalgic tale of freedom, love, friendship and adventure. THE BUS playfully explores how a post-WWII German utility vehicle evolved into a cultural icon that...Watch Movie
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This is Nowhere
Each year tens of thousands of travelers steer their RVs into Wal-Mart parking lots to "camp" for a night or two. Not because they have to. Rather, because they want to. Just as they seek out national parks and historic sites, RV travelers have marked Wal-Mart stores as travel destinations. Full...Watch Movie
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Trains are for Dreaming
Jennifer Reeves writes that TRAINS ARE FOR DREAMING "condenses eight years of Super 8 film into a seven minute celebration," and indeed its passing landscapes, sound transmissions, trips to the seashore and portraits of a grandmother all strike the viewer as an elusive and...Watch Movie
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Speed Sisters
The Speed Sisters are the first all-woman race car driving team in the Middle East. Grabbing headlines and turning heads at improvised tracks across the West Bank, these five women have sped their way into the heart of the gritty, male-dominated Palestinian street car-racing scene. Weaving...Watch Movie
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Revenge of the Electric Car
By 2006, as many as 5,000 electric cars were destroyed by the major car companies that built them. Today, the electric car is back with a vengeance. Without using a single drop of foreign oil, this new generation of car is America’s future: fast, furious and cleaner than ever....Watch Movie
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The Last Decade of Steam
THE LAST DECADE OF STEAM features mainline steam operations during the last 10 years of regular steam operations in New South Wales, Australia. Professionally shot on 16mm film with its original soundtrack, the film features mighty machines which have sadly disappeared forever.Watch Movie
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Commute
A key figure at the inception of San Francisco avant-garde film in the 1960s, Bruce Baillie finds beauty in the everyday, even challenging the notion that there is anything "avant-garde" about recording the world as it is. Baillie, in cartoonish drag, badly lipsynchs an overture to COMMUTE,...Watch Movie
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Love the Beast
What if you were a Hollywood movie star with an obsession for cars and racing? You would probably read every script with even the tiniest link to the subject matter in the hope that you could tell a great car story of the likes of GRAND PRIX. Then, one day, you happened to open your garage door...Watch Movie
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La gare
A slow-waking, beautifully shot portrait of the trains in Beauvais, France. Beginning with the men who operate the train yards, the silence of the train yards is slowly interrupted by more passengers as we travel farther along the tracks. A gentle musical crescendo accompanies more human hustle...Watch Movie
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Black Diamond Express
In the second half of the nineteenth century, the on-rushing express train was a symbol of American power and technological achievement. The Biograph Company had filmed the Empire State Express in September 1896, the fastest train of the New York Central Railroad. The Edison...Watch Movie
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Passing and Being Passed
The road is a perilous place, in part because there are so many jerks behind the wheel. As the narrator informs us, "Do anything you can to rid yourself of schoolboy competitiveness...driving in today's traffic is not for children. Fortunately, even the most infantile...Watch Movie
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New Black Diamond Express
An actuality from an era when audiences were particularly enamored with trains, NEW BLACK DIAMOND EXPRESS shows some Lehigh Valley Rail Way workers driving spikes on a working track. The foreman flags them off the track with a handkerchief as the train approaches and moves out...Watch Movie
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95 Miles to Go
Before "Everybody Loves Raymond" debuted, Ray Romano was one of the top touring comedians in the country. At the height of his sitcom's popularity, Romano revisited his stand-up roots, hitting the road with long-time friend and opening act, Tom Caltabiano, who decided to film the tour. This...Watch Movie
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The Car Ahead
This instructional short from the National Safety Council (a now century-old non-profit advocate for injury prevention at home and the workplace) and Pilot Productions is part of their series on "Techniques of Defensive Driving." After illustrating the six likeliest accident-causing situations,...Watch Movie
