Paul RobesonPaul Robeson
Portraits of the Artist
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DVD, 2007
Current format, DVD, 2007, , Available .DVD, 2007
Current format, DVD, 2007, , Available . Offered in 0 more formats"All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
The Emperor Jones: Unscrupulously ambitious Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.
Paul Robeson, tribute to an artist: Traces Robeson's career through his activism and his socially charged performances of his signature song, "Ol' man river."
Body and soul: A minister is malevolent and sinister behind his righteous facade. He consorts with, and later extorts from, the owner of a gambling house, and betrays an honest girl, eventually driving them both to ruin.
Borderline: A Negro woman having an adulterous affair with a white man causes his wife to go mad and re-enforces the towns-folk's prejudice against Negroes.
Sanders of the river: A British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930s rules his area strictly but justly. He struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a loyal native chief.
Jericho: During WWI, action hero Robeson escapes an unjust death sentence to ramble around Arabia.
The proud valley: In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.
Native land: Paul Robeson narrates a mix of dramatizations and archival footage which expose violations of Americans' civil liberties and is a call to action for exploited workers around the country.
The Emperor Jones: Unscrupulously ambitious Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.
Paul Robeson, tribute to an artist: Traces Robeson's career through his activism and his socially charged performances of his signature song, "Ol' man river."
Body and soul: A minister is malevolent and sinister behind his righteous facade. He consorts with, and later extorts from, the owner of a gambling house, and betrays an honest girl, eventually driving them both to ruin.
Borderline: A Negro woman having an adulterous affair with a white man causes his wife to go mad and re-enforces the towns-folk's prejudice against Negroes.
Sanders of the river: A British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930s rules his area strictly but justly. He struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a loyal native chief.
Jericho: During WWI, action hero Robeson escapes an unjust death sentence to ramble around Arabia.
The proud valley: In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.
Native land: Paul Robeson narrates a mix of dramatizations and archival footage which expose violations of Americans' civil liberties and is a call to action for exploited workers around the country.
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- English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).
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- O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953
- Wallace, Edgar, 1875-1932
- Marshall, Herbert, 1906-1991
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- [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2007], ©2007
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