Paul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist

All new, digital transfers created from the best surviving elements
Audio commentaries by historians Jeffrey C. Stewart (The Emperor Jones) and Pearl Bowser (Body and Soul)
Musical scores by Wycliffe Gordon (Body and Soul) and Courtney Pine (Borderline)
1958 Pacifica Radio interview with Paul Robeson (Courtesy of Pacifica Radio Archives)
Four new video programs featuring interviews with actors Ruby Dee and James Earl Jones, filmmaker William Greaves, cinematographer Tom Hurwitz, film historians Ian Christie and Stephen Bourne, and Paul Robeson Jr., and including film clips from Song of Freedom (1936), King Solomon’s Mines (1937), and Big Fella (1938)
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
PLUS: A book featuring an excerpt from Paul Robeson’s Here I Stand, new essays by Clement Alexander Price, Hilton Als, Charles Burnett, Ian Christie, Deborah Willis, and Charles Musser, a reprinted article by Harlem Renaissance writer Geraldyn Dismond, and a note from Pete Seeger. - Il cofanetto contiene: DISC 1 - ICON: The emperor Jones + Paul Robertson: tribute to an artist ; DISC 2 - OUTSIDER: Body and soul + Borderline ; DISC 3 - PIONEER: Sanders of the river + Jericho ; DISC 4 - CITIZEN OF THE WORLD: The proud valley + Native land.