The Negro Soldier (1943)
1943 · Feature film · 40 min · dir. Stuart Heisler
America's Joe Lewis vs. The Axis!
- Documentary
- Drama
- War
Synopsis
The Negro Soldier is a 1944 documentary film created by the United States Army during World War II. It was produced by Frank Capra as a follow-up to his successful film series Why We Fight. The army used the film as propaganda to convince black Americans to enlist in the army and fight in the war. Most people regarded the film very highly, some going as far as to say that The Negro Soldier was "one of the finest things that ever happened to America". Due to both high reviews and great…
Synopsis from Wikipedia
Details
- Director
- Stuart Heisler
- Writer
- Carlton Moss
- Cinematography
- Allen Q. Thompson
- Studio
- United States War Department
- Released
- 1944-04-10
- Running time
- 40 minutes
Cast & crew
Stuart Heisler Director
Carlton Moss
William Broadus
Clarence Brooks- Norman Ford
- Clyde Turner
- Bertha Woolford
George Washington Carver- Benjamin O. Davis Jr.
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · The influence of this film · De La Paz · 2011-08-04
I could see how this film was able to influence many African Americans to enlist in the U.S. Army. This film showcased African Americans in a positive light...as athletes, lawyers, and other valued professionals. African Americans were portrayed as respectable and prominent individuals, instead of being portrayed as slaves as was accustomed during that time period, 1944.
★★★★ · the negro soldier · pheret · 2008-07-01
ok, first it is SO pick and choose in what is remembered. the civil war was COMPLETELY ignored, lol, and i suspect if you were one of the black actors in the film, it drove you CRAZY. i mean, it WAS made by the war dept.! on the other hand, it is really great to get some pictures to go with all the historical black figures i learned about in school. also to see the clothing, the church, all of that is lovely to watch. a bit washed out (to say the least) but worth watching for it's historical value and, actually, pretty interesting! i give it a four cause the quality isn't great.
★★★ · The Full Paragraph From Mein Kampf · RaHoWarrior · 2024-08-21
"The boundless sins of present-day humanity in this direction may be shown by one more example. From time to time illustrated papers bring it to the attention of the German petty-bourgeois that some place or other a Negro has for the first time become a lawyer, teacher, even a pastor, in fact a heroic tenor, or something of the sort. While the idiotic bourgeoisie looks with amazement at such miracles of education, full of respect for this marvellous result of modern educational skill, the Jew shrewdly draws from it a new proof for the soundness of his theory about the 'equality of men' that…
