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Home of the Brave (1949) was a Drama - War Film directed by Mark Robson and produced by Stanley Kramer and Robert Stillman.

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The piece of music heard when the troop escapes from the Japanese force is "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" (aka "Motherless Child"), a traditional Negro spiritual music piece but a choral rendition by composer Dimitri Tiomkin.
This was the first Hollywood movie to be officially be permitted to use the word "nigger" after The Emperor Jones. Previously, the Hays Code had forbidden it since 1934.
This movie represented a significant positive change in the way African-American characters were portrayed in movies. They were no longer cast in roles confined to being just servants, plantation workers, slaves, singers and hoofers.
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Also directed by Mark Robson




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Also produced by Stanley Kramer




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Also released in 1949




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