Native Land

May 11, 1942

1h 29m

★ 6.2

The Picture with the Most Exciting Story of Our Time!

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

History

Production Companies

Frontier Films

Native Land Trailers

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Cast

Narrator

Paul Robeson

Fred Hill

Fred Johnson

Hill's Wife

Mary George

Hill's Son

John Rennick

Young Girl in Cleveland

Amelia Romano

White Sharecropper

Houseley Stevenson

Black Sharecropper

Louis Grant

Mack

James Hanney

Jim

Howard Da Silva

Harry Carlyle

Art Smith

Frank Mason, grocer

Robert Strauss

Thug With Crowbar

John Marley

Although Dave (LeVar Burton) and his family are poor sharecroppers in the Deep South in the 1930s, this 15-year-old's problem is shared by teenagers today: he stands with one foot in adulthood and the other in childhood. "Almos' A Man", yet still treated like a child, he struggles for an identity. There's one thing, one symbol of manhood, Dave thinks, that could guarantee him instant respect: a gun.

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