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.
as Narrator
as Fred Hill
as Hill's Wife
as Hill's Son
as Young Girl in Cleveland
as White Sharecropper
as Black Sharecropper
as Mack
as Jim
as Harry Carlyle
as Frank Mason, grocer
as Thug With Crowbar
as Eugene Poulnot
