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Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life is a american film of genre Documentary directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack released in USA on 20 march 1925 with Merian C. Cooper

Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925)

Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life
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Released in USA 20 march 1925
Length 1h11
OriginUSA
Rating76% 3.838183.838183.838183.838183.83818

Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925) is a silent documentary film which follows a branch of the Bakhtiari tribe of lurs in Iran as they and their herds make their seasonal journey to better pastures. It is considered one of the earliest ethnographic documentary films. It was written by Richard Carver and Terry Ramsaye.

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Merian C. Cooper

(Self (as Merian Cooper))Ernest B. Schoedsack

(Self)
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