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The Emperor Jones
Year: 1933
Time: 76
Aspect Ratio
1.33:1
Audio
English 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono
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Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
Year: 1979
Time: 30
Aspect Ratio
1.33:1
Audio
English 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono
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Body and Soul
Year: 1925
Time: 79
Aspect Ratio
1.33:1
Audio
Musical Score 2.0 Dolby Digital Stereo
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Borderline
Year: 1930
Time: 65
Aspect Ratio
1.33:1
Audio
Musical Score 2.0 Dolby Digital Stereo
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Sanders of the River
Year: 1935
Time: 91
Aspect Ratio
1.33:1
Audio
English 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono
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Jericho
Year: 1937
Time: 75
Aspect Ratio
1.33:1
Audio
English 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono
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The Proud Valley
Year: 1940
Time: 76
Aspect Ratio
1.33:1
Audio
English 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono
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Native Land
Year: 1942
Time: 89
Aspect Ratio
1.33:1
Audio
English 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono
Streaming Options
The Emperor Jones
| Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
| Body and Soul
| Borderline
| Sanders of the River
| Jericho
| The Proud Valley
| Native Land
Licensors
Studio Canal
| Janus Films
| Image Entertainment
| Gaumont
| Kino International
| The Leo Hurwitz Film Trust
Directed by: Thornton Freeland, Pen Tennyson, Leo Hurwitz, Dudley Murphy, Zoltán Korda, Saul J. Turell, Oscar Micheaux, Kenneth Macpherson, Paul Strand
Featuring: Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, Henry Wilcoxon, Edward Chapman, Leslie Banks, Eslanda Robeson, Mercedes Gilbert, Wallace Ford, Nina Mae McKinney, Simon Lack, Julia Theresa Russell, Princess Kouka, Rachel Thomas, Robert Cochrane, Lawrence Chenault, Martin Walker, John Laurie, Marshall Rodgers, Richard Grey
All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson (1898-1976) was a towering figure and a trailblazer many times over. He was perhaps most groundbreaking, however, in the medium of film. The son of an escaped slave, Robeson managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America, headlining everything from fellow pioneer Oscar Micheaux’s silent drama Body and Soul to British studio showcases to socially engaged documentaries, all the while striving to project positive images of black characters. Increasingly politically minded, Robeson eventually left movies behind, using his international celebrity to speak for those denied their civil liberties around the world and ultimately becoming a victim of ideological persecution himself. But his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American.
Technical Specifications
Format: DVD
Aspect Ratio:
1.33:1 , 1.33:1
Audio:
English 1.0 Dolby Digital Mono
, Musical Score 2.0 Dolby Digital Stereo
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Subtitles:
English
Region:
1
Discs:
4 Discs |
DVD-9
Supplements
- Audio commentary for The Emperor Jones by historian Jeffrey C. Stewart
- Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson, a new video program including interviews with filmmaker William Greaves and actors Ruby Dee and James Earl Jones
- Robeson on Robeson, a new interview with Paul Robeson, Jr. about his father’s career and art
- Audio commentary for Body and Soul by Oscar Micheaux historian Pearl Bowser
- Musical scores by jazz recording artists and composers Wycliffe Gordon (Body and Soul) and Courtney Pine (Borderline)
- True Pioneer: The British Films of Paul Robeson, a new video program featuring interviews with Paul Robeson, Jr. and film historians Stephen Bourne and Ian Christie, and including film clips from Song of Freedom (1936), King Solomon’s Mines (1937), and Big Fella (1937)
- “The Story of Native Land,” a new video interview with cinematographer Tom Hurwitz, son of Frontier Films cofounder and Native Land codirector Leo Hurwitz
- 1958 Pacifica Radio interview with Paul Robeson (Courtesy of Pacifica Radio Archives)
- A book featuring an excerpt from Paul Robeson’s Here I Stand, new essays by Clement Alexander Price, Hilton Als, Charles Burnett, Ian Christie, Deborah Willis, and Charles Musser, a reprinted article by Harlem Renaissance writer Geraldyn Dismond, and a note from Pete Seeger
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The Emperor Jones
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
Body and Soul
Borderline
Sanders of the River
Jericho
The Proud Valley
Native Land
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Artwork: Rodrigo Corral
Producer: Abbey Lustgarten
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