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1920s · United States · documentary

Grass (1925)

Directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack with Merian C. Cooper · 1 h 11 min

Year
1925
Running time
1 h 11 min
Countries
United States
Languages
English
Produced by
Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
A picture of the film's subject
The film’s subject — not a still from the film. Photo: unknown, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

About the film

Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life is a 1925 documentary film that follows a branch of the Bakhtiari tribe of Lurs in Persia as they and their herds make their seasonal journey to better pastures. It is considered one of the earliest ethnographic documentary films. In 1997, Grass was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

From the film's Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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