Dark Days

Director - Marc Singer
Year - 2000
Country - U.S.



I love documentaries. This one is about the people who lived underground in the Amtrak tunnels. It is an amazing portrait of the way people are capable of building a livelihood in the most difficult situations. The people living here built houses, had electricity, cooked food, took care of pets, and started a kind of family with others in the tunnels. It isn't the place that most people would want to live considering the rats, lack of running water, and overall darkness but the residents point out that it is much better than living on the street exposed to the elements and people who mistreat them.