Native Land

Native Land

🎞️ Movie 80 min US
โ˜… 6.3 /10 1942

The Picture with the Most Exciting Story of Our Time!

Paul Robeson narrates a mix of dramatizations and archival footage about the bill of rights being under attack during the 1930s by union busting corporations, their spies and contractors. In dramatizations, we see a farmer beaten for speaking up at a meeting, a union man murdered in a boarding house, two sharecroppers near Fort Smith Arkansas shot by men deputized by the local sheriff, a spy stealing the names of union members, and a dead Chicago union man eulogized. In archival footage we witness police and goons beating lawfully assembled union organizers, and we see men at work and union families at play. The narration celebrates patriotism and democracy.

Cast

Paul Robeson
Paul Robeson
Narrator
Paul Robeson
Paul Robeson
Vocalist
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Fred Johnson
Fred Hill, farmer
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Mary George
Hill's Wife
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John Rennick
Hill's Son
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Amelia Romano
Young Girl in Cleveland
Houseley Stevenson
Houseley Stevenson
White Sharecropper
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Louis Grant
Black Sharecropper
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James Hanney
Mack, union president
Howard Da Silva
Howard Da Silva
Jim - informant
Art Smith
Art Smith
Harry Carlyle
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Marc Blitzstein
Composer
Paul Strand
Paul Strand
Cinematographer