The Bridge (2006 documentary film)

The Bridge
Directed byEric Steel
Written byEric Steel
Produced byEric Steel
CinematographyPeter McCandless
Edited bySabine Krayenbühl
Music byAlex Heffes
Distributed byIFC Films
Release dates
  • April 2006 (2006-04) (San Francisco International Film Festival)
  • October 27, 2006 (2006-10-27) (United States)
  • February 16, 2007 (2007-02-16) (United Kingdom)
Running time
95 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$25,000
Box office$205,724

The Bridge is a 2006 documentary film by Eric Steel spanning one year of filming at the Golden Gate Bridge which crosses the Golden Gate entrance to San Francisco Bay, connecting the city of San Francisco, California to the Marin Headlands of Marin County, in 2004. The film shows a number of suicides, and features interviews with family and friends of some of the identified people who had thrown themselves from the bridge that year and one person who had jumped previously and survived.

The film was inspired by a 2003 article titled "Jumpers", written by Tad Friend for The New Yorker magazine. The film crew shot almost 10,000 hours of footage, recording 23 of the known 24 suicides off the bridge in 2004.