Native Land (1942)
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By the start of World War II, Paul Robeson had given up his lucrative mainstream work to participate in more socially progressive film and stage productions. Robeson committed his support to Paul Strand and Leo Hurwitz’s political semidocumentary Native Land. With Robeson’s narration and songs, this beautifully shot and edited film exposes violations of Americans’ civil liberties and is a call to action for exploited workers around the country. Scarcely shown since its debut, Native Land represents Robeson’s shift from narrative cinema to the leftist documentaries that would define the final chapter of his controversial film career.
- Date of release
- 1942-05-11
- TMDB
- 6.3 / 10 (14)
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Director
- Leo Hurwitz, Paul Strand
Casting
- Paul Robeson — Narrator
- Fred Johnson — Fred Hill
- Mary George — Hill's Wife
- John Rennick — Hill's Son
- Amelia Romano — Young Girl in Cleveland
- Houseley Stevenson — White Sharecropper
- Louis Grant — Black Sharecropper
- James Hanney — Mack
- Howard Da Silva — Jim
- Art Smith — Harry Carlyle
- Robert Strauss — Frank Mason, grocer
- John Marley — Thug With Crowbar
Interesting facts
- Filmed in: New York City
Native Land is a 1942 docudrama film directed by Leo Hurwitz and Paul Strand.
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