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"  This is shaping up to be one helluva year for documentaries. Anvil: The Story of Anvil, The Cove, Tyson... and that&amp;#039;s just a few of the good ones. But one of the best documentaries coming out this year doesn&amp;#039;t even require you to put on pants for a trip to the movie theater. Premiering tonight at 9 P.M. Eastern as part of HBO&amp;#039;s documentary film series, Which Way Home tells the story of child immigrants hopping freight trains in South America in order to make the harrowing journey northward through Mexico to reach what they hope will be a better life in the United States.  The film follows several children traveling unaccompanied, some as young as nine, others barely into their teens. The perils they face on their journey include railroad bulls, other outlaw travelers, and the brutal indifference of the trains they ride on: One misstep will leave the lucky traveler merely disfigured, and the unlucky far worse.  This is uncomfortable subject matter, in part because watching it reminds you how comfortable things are here in the States, despite the economic crash. None of us, after all, are sneaking our kids onto the Adirondack in hopes they&amp;#039;ll find a better life in the lumber mills of Quebec. But it&amp;#039;s also tremendous, eye-opening filmmaking \u2014 and that&amp;#039;s always worth watching. RELATED LINKS:  ON THE MOVIE HORIZON: 25 Movie Reviews from Cannes... in 25 Sentences  MINOR TRANSGRESSIONS: Why Hopping Freight Trains Is (Totally) Worth It "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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