Native Land

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1942-05-11

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

80 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (189 Reviews)

Director:

Leo Hurwitz Paul Strand

Genres:

Drama History

Cast:

Paul Robeson Fred Johnson Mary George John Rennick

Writer:

Leo Hurwitz

Ben Maddow

Paul Strand

Fullplot:

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.

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