Leo Hurwitz, Paul Strand
Native Land
Edition 1981
80'
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1942
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Historical, Drama
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Dialogue:
English
Director:
Leo Hurwitz, Paul Strand
Composer:
Marc Blitzstein
With:
Paul Robeson, Fred Johnson, Mary George
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 Michigan farmer beaten for speaking up at a meeting, a union man murdered in an apartment in Cleveland, 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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Director
Leo Hurwitz, Paul Strand
Composer
Marc Blitzstein
With
Paul Robeson, Fred Johnson, Mary George
Scenario
Leo Hurwitz, Paul Strand, Ben Maddow
Director of Photography
Paul Strand
Editor
Leo Hurwitz, Lionel Berman, Bob Stebbins
Producer
Leo Hurwitz, Paul Strand
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Dialogue
English
Countries of production
United States of America
Year
1942