This movie has everything - a moving story, wonderful actors, and great music!

A must see film starring an actor to be experienced and known. You must see this film if only to hear The Voice. But then also there are all the contradictions between how this man was allowed to portray a character in a British-made movie and the reality of life in the United States in the 1930's. The next reviewer, Erica, says so much so well. I direct you to her review.

I've just watched Emperor Jones and Song of Freedom for the first time. I now understand why Paul Robeson was so villified in the U.S. durinng his lifetime. What blows me away is that none of today's Black film producers have bothered to film a biographical adaptation of his life.Here's a man born in 1898 who attended Rutger's University and earned a Juris Doctorate in Law from Columbia University. He was a gifted vocalist, an actor, an amazing civil rights leader, multi-lingual, an athlete so talented his coach labeleld him the greatest football player ever, and yet young Americans, and my Baby-Boomer self, don't know him. What a shame.I loved Emperor Jones and knew that a film like that, made in the early 1930's, could never have been made in America where a Black man killed a white man and got away with it. Not at that time. Only in Great Britain could Paul Robeson had lived like an equal man, or a man recognized for his superiority. His acting skills were so intense, and his presence, not just his physical size, was so large, there is no way he could have been ignored. I understand now why he made the films he made because he was driven to show the world that people of color were not inferior. Truly, Paul Robeson, was the forerunner for every Black actor anywhere who has played parts that featured dignified and intelligent Black people. Long live his name.Now I will tell you that while it wasn't funny, I did think it was funny that when he took all his knowledge, wealth and fame back to the "home" he longed for in Africa, and tried to uplift "his" people, the tribal laws of his people condemned his wife to death. I knew he had to be thinking, as she was about to be tossed into the pit, "what the hell was I thinking?"Great film. Does HULU have anymore?

He is wonderful.,,,,,

Awesome movie! But I was expecting a different plot after seeing the barmaid's subtle lip bite at 00:20:51. Ha!