Film

Barge

2015 · 1h 15m · Documentary

IMDb

7.0

A towboat drifts down the Mississippi River, due for the port of New Orleans. The water, the banks, the bright lights of a port ahead; the lure of a coming paycheck and a home-cooked meal. This is the world of BARGE. A green deckhand following his father into the family business. A former convict working his way upward job by job, in the hopes of being First Mate. A thirty-eight year veteran engineer in no hurry to retire. An ancient waterway pulling a double shift as the backbone of a national economy; a tangle of thick steel cables, tied together just right. As long as the boat’s moving, they’re making money. An intimate portrait of the machinery of American ambitions.

• Ben PowellDirector
• Ryan GouldEditor

Release date

March 14, 2015

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 15m

Genres

Documentary