Paul Robeson citizen of the world.
(DVD) 

Title from disc label.

DVD release of the 1940 (The proud valley) and 1942 (Native land) motion pictures.

The proud valley based on the story by Herbert Marshall and Alfredda Brilliant.

Issued as part of a 4-disc set entitled Paul Robeson : portraits of the artist.

Special features: The story of Native land (video interview with cinematographer Tom Hurwitz, son of Native Land co-director Leo Hurwitz).

The proud valley: photography, Glen MacWilliams, Roy Kellino ; art director, Wilfrid Shingleton ; editor, Ray Pitt ; music arranged and directed by Ernest Irving. Native land: associate directors, Alfred Saxe, William Watts ; photography by Paul Strand ; editing by Leo Hurwitz ; music by Marc Blitzstein ; orchestra conducted by Lehman Engel.

The proud valley: Paul Robeson, Edward Chapman, Edward Rigby, Simon Lack, Janet Johnson, Rachel Thomas, Charles Williams, Dilys Thomas, Jack Jones, Dilys Davies, Clifford Evans, Alan Jeayes, George Merritt, Edward Lexy.

Native land: Paul Robeson (narrator), Fred Johnson, Mary George, John Rennick, Amelia Romano, Housely Stevenson, Louis Grant, James Hanney, Howard Da Sylva, Art Smith, Bert Conway, Richard Bishop, Charles Jordan, Vaughn King, Robert Strauss, Dolores Cornell, John Marlieb, Tom Connors, Harry Wilson, Rev. Charles Webber, Virginia Stevens, Clancy Cooper, Tom Pedi.

Robeson on Pacifica Radio, 1958: interviewee, Paul Robeson ; interviewers, Elsa Knight Thompson, Harold Winkler.

In Proud Valley an African American sailor comes to a Welsh coal mining town in 1938 and helps re-open the mine at the cost of his life. Native Land, a political semi-documentary formed from staged reenactments, leads viewers on an emotional tour of the pre-World War II U.S. and its freedom-based ideologies and looks at the the forces it sees as threatening to undermine America's strengths from within: greedy capitalists, professional strikebreakers, and the Ku Klux Kan. Robeson on Pacifica Radio: Paul Robeson was denied his U.S. passport from 1950 to 1958 after he refused to sign an affidavit stating that he was not a Communist. During this time, Pacifica Radio interviewed Robeson, allowing him to express his personal history and view of the world. This interview was conducted by host Elsa Knight Thompson and Harold Winkler, president of the Pacifica Foundation.

DVD; region 1, NTSC; 1.33:1 aspect ratio; Dolby digital mono.

In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.