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Brotherhood of Man is a classic silent-era film that tells a powerful story about unity, compassion, and the struggles of everyday people. This vintage movie reflects the spirit of early cinema with meaningful storytelling and timeless themes about humanity and brotherhood.

Enjoy this restored classic film from the golden age of silent movies and experience the charm of early filmmaking.

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Transcript
00:28The
00:29has his own special dream of what the world's going to be like in the future.
00:34But we all know it's steadily shrinking. One of these days we're going to wake up
00:39and find that people and places we used to just read about are practically in
00:43our own backyard.
01:38It's happened.
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02:37It'll never work.
02:38You can't get along with those people.
02:41They're too different.
02:43We'll get along.
02:44We've got to.
02:45The future of civilization depends on brotherhood.
03:07I wouldn't trust any one of them.
03:10I will.
03:11Oh, my damn.
03:23Wait a minute.
03:25What about this business of brotherhood?
03:32But we're all different.
03:35Are you?
03:37Let's take a look at the facts right from the start.
03:41The first people on earth knew only a very small section of it.
03:46They lived close together and looked alike.
03:48But pretty soon they started to spread out.
03:51And as they drifted further apart, little differences began to appear.
03:57Most of the people of the world kept the same in-between colors their ancestors, and still do.
04:04But three groups on the very edges of the world population developed distinct differences in color.
04:10These exceptional groups gave rise to our idea of three separate races of mankind.
04:18Well, there are other differences in people besides a skin color.
04:21Why?
04:23Yes, you find all sorts of hair, eyes, nose shapes, and sizes.
04:38But you find these same differences within each group.
04:43It's only color and a few other frills that distinguish our three races.
04:48The Caucasian, the Negroid, and the Mongoloid.
04:54For example, there is no difference in physical strength.
05:15Well, strength, sure, but...
05:21What about brains?
05:28There are some variations.
05:31For instance, there is a difference of about 50 cubic centimeters in the size of the brain
05:36of the average American Negro and the brain of the average American white, both of which
05:41are smaller than the brain of the average Eskimo, and the largest brain on record was that of an imbecile.
05:50So it isn't the size of a brain that counts, it's what it can do.
05:54And there, tests have shown that our three average men are equal.
05:58If you take their skins off, there's no way to tell them apart.
06:03The heart, liver, lungs, blood, everything's the same.
06:09Uh, everything's the same.
06:11Heart, liver, lungs, blood...
06:21No, not blood. Blood's different.
06:24Well, there are four different types of blood.
06:28A, B, AB, and O.
06:32Patient in room 216 needs a transfusion right away.
06:36I'll give it to him.
06:38I'm his brother!
06:44Stanley!
06:45He's dead!
06:47Yes, but he wouldn't be if we'd been more scientific about it.
06:53Brother or no brother, what he needs is type A.
06:58And the right blood donor for him could belong to any race,
07:01since the four blood types appear in all races.
07:09Say, we're not really so different at all.
07:12Like you say, it's just the frills.
07:20Only, wait a minute.
07:22I got a question.
07:24How come we live like this?
07:30And, uh...
07:32It wasn't always that way.
07:35For instance, at a stage of history,
07:37when the so-called pure whites of Northern Europe were little better than savages,
07:42the darker-skinned, mixed peoples of the Near East and Africa had flourishing cultures.
07:50And the great civilization of Northern China had begun to develop.
07:54All peoples contributed to civilization,
07:57reaching high levels at different times,
08:00and each learning from the experience of the other.
08:13But there were certain basic ideas which were common to all branches of the human race.
08:19Belief in a supreme being,
08:22in the home,
08:24and the family.
08:26How civilized a person is depends on the surroundings in which he grows up.
08:32The differences in the way people behave are not inherited from their ancestors.
08:38They come from something called cultural experience or environment.
08:45Suppose you could somehow switch two newborn infants from entirely different backgrounds.
08:51They would not inherit their real parents' cultural experience or ideas or mechanical aptitudes.
08:58Those are things you acquire.
09:01Got a match, bud?
09:09I get it.
09:11But now that we're living so close together,
09:13we can get used to each other's ways
09:15and work together peacefully.
09:33All we need is a little real understanding of what I said before.
09:38Brotherhood.
09:39Right.
09:40And we have to put those ideas into practice in certain very specific ways.
09:45We have to see to it that there's equal opportunity for everyone from the very beginning.
09:51An equal start in life.
09:54Equal chance for health and medical care.
10:00And a good education.
10:04An equal chance for a job.
10:06An equal chance for a job.
10:07Then we can all go forward together.
10:10Tell us to be a man out there.
10:10If you have a lot of jobs out there.
10:11Well, but you have a prerogated
10:26you, I have to wait for theolipus.
10:27It really has to wait for you.
10:33You have a medical criteria.
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