The Bridge

Eric Steel's controversial and poignant documentary airs on IFC. The New York Times calls it "one of the most moving and brutally honest films about suicide ever made."
Free | IFC

Posted: 6/30/2008

The Golden Gate Bridge is an iconic structure. An engineering masterpiece. A triumph of human ingenuity and muscle over the elements. A symbol of San Francisco, the West, freedom and something more, something almost spiritual but impossible to describe. More people choose to end their lives at the Golden Gate Bridge than anywhere else in the world. The sheer number of deaths there is shocking but perhaps not altogether surprising. If one wants to commit suicide, that is, there is an eerie logic in selecting a means that is almost always fatal and a place that is magically, mysteriously beautiful. Director Eric Steel and his crew spent all of 2004, an entire year, looking very carefully at the Golden Gate Bridge, running cameras for almost every daylight minute, and filming most of the two dozen suicides and a great many of the unrealized attempts. In addition, the director captured nearly 100 hours of incredibly frank, deeply personal, often heart-wrenching interviews with the families
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Length: 02:22
Posted: 7/23/2009

The Bridge movie trailer - Directed by Eric Steel. Theatrical Release Date: 10/27/2006 Genre: Documentary Rating: Not Rated
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Length: 01:58
Posted: 3/17/2008

The Golden Gate Bridge is an iconic structure; a symbol of San Francisco, the West, freedom - and something more, something spiritual, something words cannot describe. The director and crew spent an entire year focusing on the Bridge. Running cameras for almost every daylight minute, they documented nearly two dozen suicides and a great many unrealized attempts. In addition, the director captured nearly 100 hours of incredibly frank, deeply personal, often heart-wrenching interviews with the families and friends of the departed, as well as with several of the attempters themselves. "The Bridge" is a visual and visceral journey into one of life's gravest taboos, offering glimpses into the darkest and possibly most impenetrable corners of the human mind.
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Length: 01:34:17
Posted: 5/15/2009