Grass: A Nation's Battle For Life (1925) | Directed by Merian C. Cooper - Full Movie

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The struggles of a hardscrabble Iranian nomadic tribe as they journey through bleak country to reach the grasslands that will save their livestock.

Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925) is a documentary film which 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".

Directed by: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Written by: Terry Ramsaye
Produced by: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Starring: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Marguerite Harrison, Haidar Khan
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release date: March 20, 1925
Running time: 71 min
Country: United States
Languages: Silent film, Intertitles

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