The Land

Robert J. Flaherty

To stunning images, Flaherty narrates ‘the story of how rural America used machines to achieve an unbelievable production – but at a terrible cost to land and to people’. A devastating film that was re-tooled to fit national priorities at a time of war.

Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Introduction by Tom Hurwitz

Sessions

One Screening Only
25 Oct • 15:30 / 86’
Cinemateca Portuguesa - Sala M. Félix Ribeiro

Retrospective Documentary on the March: The Turbulent 30s in New Deal America / This Land Is Our Land

The Land

Robert J. Flaherty

The City

Ralph Steiner, Willard Van Dyke