Actor, athlete, singer and civil rights activist, Paul Robeson was a true polymath Renaissance Man who could sing and speak in more than twenty languages. A huge role model for African Americans during the twenties and thirties he is best known in cinematic circles for the films he made in Britain in the 1930s which showcase his fine singing voice.

DISC ONE:

BODY AND SOUL: A dissolute, venal black preacher shows up in a seedy speakeasy full of criminals and cardsharps, then appears to be trying to dupe a pious mother into marrying off her daughter.

SANDERS OF THE RIVER: Sanders has established peace in the river district of West Africa where he is a British Resident Commissioner. His probationary chief, Bosambo, uses Sanders' orders to free a slave convoy.

DISC TWO:

SONG OF FREEDOM: A successful British concert singer discovers he is descended from a West African queen whose tribe is now leaderless. He goes to Africa where he is met with hostility - can he win their hearts and minds?

BIG FELLA: A Marseille dock worker befriends a small boy who has lost his parents after arriving on an ocean liner. Can he reunite the young lad with his parents?

DISC THREE:

KING SOLOMON’S MINES: Fortune hunter Patrick O'Brien is on a trek across the desert in hope of finding the fabled diamond mines of Solomon. His daughter persuades hunter Allan Quartermain to lead a party to rescue him.

DISC FOUR:

Exclusive audio CD featuring 20 of Paul Robeson's greatest hits, including Ol' Man River, The Lonesome Road and Lazy Bones.