Native Land
1942 · 89 MIN · IMDB 6.3 · 391 VOTES · DIR. Leo Hurwitz, Paul Strand
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 888 lines
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00:02:09 Over this ocean...
00:04:59 We fought a seven-year war.
00:07:39 we built them into bridges and dynamos and concrete cities.
00:14:45 Twenty miles down the river, people in the next town going their own way...
00:22:39 #I know it like it was #
00:25:48 #Morning on wheels #
00:28:33 milk and shoes and iron and gasoline...
00:31:21 and health insurance and a 40-hour week.
00:34:17 Hey, Arch, get in therel
00:37:41 Good-bye to the finkl
00:40:24 He was picked up the other day...
00:43:32 Take good care of it, boy.
00:47:59 "McComb likes me. We had beer together.
00:51:18 They'd put the finger on me.
00:56:40 Attention, plant superintendents. Attention, personnel.
00:59:22 Life, liberty? Yes.
01:03:51 Raised a family here.
01:07:33 That would be easy, perhaps...
01:10:48 The K.K.K., the Black Legion.
01:13:32 Out of town.
01:16:13 Millions of rounds of ammunition.
01:19:17 Not very much. Not too much.
01:25:44 Freedom, won step by step...
02:00:00 the Republic Steel plant...