Where to Watch Riding the Rails Online

Want to watch 'Riding the Rails' on your TV, phone, or tablet? Searching for a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or watch the Lexy Lovell-directed movie via subscription can be confusing, so we here at Moviefone want to take the pressure off.

Read on for a listing of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription choices - along with the availability of 'Riding the Rails' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into all the details of how you can watch 'Riding the Rails' right now, here are some finer points about the documentary flick.

Released January 1st, 1997, 'Riding the Rails' stars Richard Thomas The movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 12 min, and received a user score of 55 (out of 100) on TMDb, which put together reviews from 9 well-known users.

Want to know what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "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."

'Riding the Rails' is currently available to rent, purchase, or stream via subscription on Amazon Video .