Native Land is a 1942 documentary film directed by Leo Hurwitz and Paul Strand.
A combination of a documentary format and staged reenactments, the film depicted the struggle of trade unions against union-busting corporations, their spies and contractors. It was based on the 1938 report of the La Follette Committee's investigation of the repression of labor organizing.
Famous African-American singer, actor and activist Paul Robeson participated as an off-screen narrator and vocalist.
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“When I think of my own native land,
In a moment I seem to be there;
But alas! recollection at hand
Soon hurries me back to despair.”
—William Cowper (1731–1800)
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—Anna Garlin Spencer (1851–1931)
“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)