Tony Buba Movies

This short tells the story of a cafe where steel workers come to eat.

A film which uses the device of developing Polaroid camera shots to present the highlights of a family celebration during the birthday of filmmaker...

A visit with family to learn how to make fresh pasta.

A trip inside a Steel Valley workers’ magazine, which looks like raw material for a Bruce Springsteen song.

This documentary focuses on the Civil Rights Movement in the heavily segregated steel industry and its equally segregated union, The United...

The film follows a neighborhood guy who has never been quite the same since somersaulting out of the faulty sixth-story window of some shoddy...

A snapshot of a pizzeria in Braddock, PA circa 1990.

A compilation of Tony Buba's home movies

Buba introduces us to a Braddock entrepreneur who has failed at twelve businesses and is busy teaching would-be entrepreneurs self-confidence.

A look back at Braddock's "Cot Club" and its patrons.

A glimpse into the economic decline of Braddock PA.

A short film featuring images of his grandfather’s just-demolished shoe-repair shop in 1972

A visit with a barber in his autumn years.

Tony Buba trains his documentary lens on the washing of his 87-year-old grandmother’s kitchen walls, an annual ritual. While the filmmaker...

A short documentary about Braddock

Ghosts of Amistad by Tony Buba is based on Marcus Rediker's The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom (Penguin, 2012). It...

From implosions of steel mills after the decline of the industry to the demolition of the community hospital in Braddock, filmmaker Tony Buba...