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Bus Rider's Union (2000)
Directed by Johanna Demetrakas, Haskell Wexler
Documentary · 1h 27m
A 1998 editorial in Time magazine made the claim that the city of Los Angeles "might just have the most inept public-transport system on the planet earth. . . . The neglected bus system, which still handles 91% of all transit riders,is now roughly as efficient as travel by burro." Academy Award–winning cinematographer and director Haskell Wexler (Medium Cool, Latino) has now fashioned a new documentary tracing three years in the life of a group of bus-rider activists passionately engaged in the struggle to bring affordable, safe, and adequate mass transit back to their city. What might at first sound like a well-intentioned but rather parochial subject for a film has resulted in a truly inspiring lesson in how working-class, predominantly minority citizens forge an effective social movement and how, like Rosa Parks and the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycotters of the 1950s, a group of committed individuals can successfully challenge the powers that seek to control their lives.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Johanna Demetrakas, Haskell Wexler
- Director of Photography
- Haskell Wexler
Details
- Release date
- 2000-10-01
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Countries
- United States of America