The Bridge (2006)

Directed by

Eric Steel

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

R

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 227 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary records one year of filming at the Golden Gate Bridge in 2004. It shows people jumping from the bridge and interviews family and friends of some of those who died, as well as one survivor.

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What happens

The Bridge is a 2006 documentary film by Eric Steel spanning one year of filming at the Golden Gate Bridge which crosses the Golden Gate entrance to San Francisco Bay, connecting the city of San Francisco, California, to the Marin Headlands of Marin County, in 2004. The film shows a number of suicides, and features interviews with family and friends of some of the identified people who had thrown themselves from the bridge that year and one person who had jumped previously and survived. The film was inspired by a 2003 article titled "Jumpers", written by Tad Friend for The New Yorker magazine. The film crew shot almost 10,000 hours of footage, recording 23 of the known 24 suicides off the bridge in 2004. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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