People of the Cumberland

Robert Stebbins [Sidney Meyers], Eugene Hill [Jay Leyda]

A test case for the collective’s ambitions, Frontier Film’s landmark first full production combines documentary and drama in a rousing case for the plight of a rural Tennessee population, and efforts by progressive education and unions to empower it.

Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Introduction by Tanya Goldman and Tom Hurwitz

Sessions

One Screening Only
21 Oct • 19:30 / 57’
Cinemateca Portuguesa - Sala Luís de Pina

Retrospective Documentary on the March: The Turbulent 30s in New Deal America / Dramatic Facts for Dramatic Times

Pie in the Sky

Ralph Steiner

Millions of Us

Jack Smith [Slavko Vorkapich], Tina Taylor

People of the Cumberland

Robert Stebbins [Sidney Meyers], Eugene Hill [Jay Leyda]