Which Way Home (2009)

Directed by

Rebecca Cammisa

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

7.9 of 10 from 24 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows children traveling alone from Central America and Mexico through Mexico on freight trains hoping to reach the United States. It shows the dangerous and uncertain journey they face.

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What happens

Which Way Home is a 2009 documentary film directed by Rebecca Cammisa that follows several children who are attempting to get from Mexico and Central America to the United States on top of a freight train that crosses Mexico known as "La Bestia" (The Beast). Cammisa received a Fulbright Scholar Grant to make the documentary in 2006. The film premiered on HBO on August 24, 2009. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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