American Road

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Production countries: US
Origin countries: US
Language: EN
Spoken: English
Production: Cold Chicago Productions
Budget: N/A
Revenue: N/A

Production countries: US
Origin countries: US
Language: EN
Spoken: English
Production: Cold Chicago Productions
Budget: N/A
Revenue: N/A

American Road

Released 25 Jun, 2013 1h 48min

American Road

Released 25 Jun, 2013 1h 48min

This documentary explores the artistic, musical and literary resonances of the mystique of the road - and especially of going off the beaten track - in American lore. The Westward expansion, the Dust Bowl era, hobos, post-war suburbanization and the Beat critique of it; hitchhiking, the upheavals of the 1960s and early 1970s and the current generation of backpackers clutching their Lonely Planet and Rough Guides. American Road ultimately probes... see more

This documentary explores the artistic, musical and literary resonances of the mystique of the road - and especially of going off the beaten track - in American lore. The Westward expansion, the Dust Bowl era, hobos, post-war suburbanization and the Beat critique of it; hitchhiking, the upheavals of the 1960s and early 1970s and the current generation of backpackers clutching their Lonely Planet and Rough Guides. American Road ultimately probes... see more

Sean Stone

Jack Kerouac

41 yrs

Ed Asner

†

Walt Whitman

91 yrs

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