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The Bus (1965)

The Bus poster
Directed by
Haskell Wexler
Genre
documentary film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 02m
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A documentary that follows a group of people as they travel by bus from the West Coast to Washington D.C. in 1965. The film captures their conversations, the people they meet, and the atmosphere of the civil rights movement at the time.

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What happens

El autobús (título original: The Bus) es un documental estadounidense de 1965, dirigido y escrito por Haskell Wexler, que también se encargó de la producción y la fotografía, George Lucas fue asistente de producción, musicalizado por Richard Markowitz, como protagonista está Martin Luther King Jr..​ Esta obra se estrenó el 5 de abril de 1965.​ (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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