The Great American Hobo produced in 1980 features the music of Supertramp's "Take the Long Way Home" documenting the men and women who rode freight trains. Shot in 14 states and culminates with the Hobo Convention in Britt Iowa. Premiered the Independent Eye series for PBS in 1980.
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United States 04 July 1980
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19 September 1980
A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit. Engineer Prokop creates the devastating explosive “Krakatit” and soon confronts manipulative agents and imperialist conspiracies.
30 October 1980
Felipe goes home for a holiday and discovers that everything in town has changed in his absence; old don So-and-so is running around forcing people to sell their farms to him and killing them if they refuse.
10 March 1980
A married landlord has an affair with a young man renting out one of her apartments in Greece.
04 January 1980
The bitter-sweet love affairs of four sisters with different outlooks and temperaments end in simultaneous weddings.
10 April 1980
A village doctor is involved in a shady business.
08 February 1980
Narda receives superhuman powers and becomes Darna. Darna and her child brother Ding start by fighting the Hawk Woman; next they face-off with the Giant, and both foes are destroyed.
07 October 1980
Variety special hosted by Barbara Eden, Gloria Swanson, and Brooke Shields that celebrates the men whose sex appeal transcends age and the ages.
01 April 1980
Lovers Edgar and Lucia dream of happiness, but Lucia's brother Henry is preparing her marriage to another man.
09 May 1980
Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
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