Based on a 1939 report of the U.S. Senate Civil Liberties Committee, this fascinating hybrid -- part documentary, part re-enactment -- examines racism, violent union-busting, labor spying and other violations of constitutional rights in the late years of the Depression. A prime example of what became known as the New York School of documentary filmmaking, Native Land was initially financed by thousands of small contributors and completed with a grant from the Roosevelt administration; it was made by the legendary Frontier Films cooperative, which was founded in 1936 and whose members later came under fire during Joseph McCarthy's anti-Communist witch hunts.
Native Land will screen at 7 p.m. Friday, September 24, at the library, 1000 Canyon Boulevard in Boulder; admission is free. For more information, go to www.boulder.lib.co.us/films.
