Novice filmmaker Marc Singer lived in the bowels of a midtown Manhattan railway station for two years to shoot this harrowing account of the day-to-day existence of the homeless. Shot in noirish black... read more 
DVD Release Date: September 25, 2001
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June 20, 2011A brutally honest look at the world of homeless people in New York. We get to hang out with these people as they try and build a life in the underground tunnels of Amtrack. They don't make any attempt to tell a story here. They just let life play out and take us along for the ... read more
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November 22, 2009This was really interesting in being able to see how these people really live. They're making the most of their situation and it shows them as real people who realise their mistakes and feel guilty about what they've done and wish it could be changed. It's also really good that t... read more
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November 10, 2008Moving documentary with an evenhanded positive attitude to homeless peoples' plight. It explores their sad back stories but ends in a spirit of hope for the future.
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November 9, 2008a powerful documentary about a group of homeless people living in an abandoned stretch of amtrak tunnel under nyc, some of them for years. first time filmmaker marc singer lived underground for several months, then decided to make a film to raise money to help his friends. usin... read more
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May 1, 2009The music, the atmosphere, the story, the subject matter.. brilliant. One of those documentaries that stays in the mind fo a long time afterwards.
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August 26, 2006Facinating doc about homeless people living in a subway tunnel in NYC. Everyone should see this.
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December 23, 2011An unsettling documentary about a group of people dwelling beneath New York City. While I was moved and affected by their stories and situations, I could not overlook Singer's excellent cinematography, especially when considering he was filming in a difficult environment and onl... read more
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May 26, 2008What a harrowing dose of reality this movie is... Dark Days lets you see life through the eyes of a group of homeless men living in the subway tunnels of New York City. These men (and a couple women), uneducated and unable to find jobs, have erected a crude city below the city,... read more
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January 29, 2008This is a fascinating documentary about the lives of homeless living in the NY railway tunnels. I was saddened by their situation and yet amazed by their ability to persevere and make the best of a terrible situation. It brings humanity and real faces to the homeless plight tha... read more
Critic Reviews
June 28, 2011
Mark Holcomb, Village Voice
July 1, 2011
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
Shot in stylized black-and-white, this docu about the homeless was the winner of multiple awards at the Sundance Film Fest. Full Review
July 1, 2011
Louis Proyect, rec.arts.movies.reviews
A deeply humanistic documentary about NYC's "lower depths". Full Review
June 27, 2011
Kalvin Henely, Slant Magazine
The documentary feels like it surreptitiously removed another barrier to more direct relations between those behind and in front of the camera. Full Review
May 1, 2011
Neil Mitchell, Electric Sheep
Dark Days remains a vital documentation and representation of a continuing, widespread problem, the resonance of which is heightened in these fragile, economically troubled times. Full Review
October 20, 2007
Brandon Judell, New York Theatre Wire
One of the best films about the homeless ever made. Full Review
January 9, 2007
Daniel Eagan, Film Journal International
A tribute to its characters' indomitable spirits. Full Review
June 13, 2004
Martin Scribbs, Low IQ Canadian
As a chronicle of midnight and dawn in the great human day, Dark Days ranks among the most moral of films. Full Review
December 1, 2003
Brian Gibson, Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)
haunting documentary about the homeless beneath New York's streets
April 29, 2003
Joshua Tanzer, Offoffoff
An unromanticized and fascinating glimpse of the lives of a community of homeless people surviving in a train tunnel in Manhattan. Full Review
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