The Inheritance (1964)
58m
Running Time
November 8, 1964Release Date
Plot.
The Inheritance shows what life was really like for immigrants and working Americans from the turn of the century through the fight for civil rights in the 1960s. This stirring history of our country shows their struggle to put down roots, form labor unions, survive wars, and finally, create a new and better life for themselves and our nation. The film explores a landscape largely unknown to the present generation - the dim sweatshops, coal mines and textile mills filled with children; the anxious years of the depression and labor's bloody struggle for the right to organize; the battlefields of WW I and II; the seldom seen newsreel footage of the Memorial Day massacre at The Republic Steel strike in Chicago; the civil rights struggle - as every generation fights again to preserve and extend its freedoms. This is the film's theme. Judy Collins sings this theme song, as well as more great music sung by Judy, Pete Seeger, Tom Paxton and others.
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Cast & Crew.

Robert Ryan
Narrator (voice)

Harold Mayer
Director / Producer

Millard Lampell
Writer

Calvin Coolidge
Self - President of the United States

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self - President of the United States

Adolf Hitler
Self

Anne Revere
Voice

Lionel Stander
Voice

George Kleinsinger
Composer

Edmund B. Gerard
Cinematographer

Leonard Stark
Cinematographer
