Jericho is a 1937 British drama film directed by Thornton Freeland and starring Paul Robeson, Henry Wilcoxon and Wallace Ford.
Paul Robeson considered Jericho one of his most positive accomplishments in projecting a screen image of a Black man with courage, honor, self-sacrifice and intelligence who achieves success and happiness.
Jericho Jackson (Robeson), a medical student drafted into the war, heroically saves the trapped men, in defiance of his superior's orders to abandon ship, but accidentally kills the officer in the melee.
He leads his people to victory over rivals and brings peace and unity to the region through which the Tuareg trek annually to trade for salt.
When an anthropology film crew's coverage of the salt trek is shown in London, Captain Mack spots Jericho and vows to track him down.