Boxcar Bertha

Name: Boxcar Bertha
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Released: 1972-06-14
Duration: 1 h 28 min
Rating: 6

During the Great Depression, a union leader and a young woman become criminals to exact revenge on the management of a railroad.

Based on "Sister of the Road," the fictionalized autobiography of radical and transient Bertha Thompson as written by physician Dr. Ben L. Reitman, 'Boxcar' Bertha Thompson, a woman labor organizer in Arkansas during the violence-filled Depression of the early '30's meets up with rabble-rousing union man 'Big' Bill Shelly and they team up to fight the corrupt railroad establishment and she is eventually sucked into a life of crime with him.

Watch Now

Streaming in:

Australia
Canada
Romania
United Kingdom
United States

Unlock the ability to watch Boxcar Bertha in any region!

Click here to see how you can watch Boxcar Bertha and thousands of other movies and shows today from anywhere around the world with the help of NordVPN.