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Herbert Kline March 13, 1909 - February 5, 1999

Herbert Kline was an American documentary filmmaker.

Born in Davenport, Iowa, Kline's early hero was Jack London. He called Iowa "a cultural Sahara" and ran away to New York when he was 13. He was returned home by a relative, but though his travels and reading, he'd he become interested in radical politics at an early age. When he was barely 20 years old, he became one of several editors for Left Front magazine in Chicago. He then moved to New York City and became editor of New Theater Magazine. In 1936 Kline left New Theater Magazine and was one of many independent  filmmakers drawn tosupport the Loyalist forces in Europe. Kline's first film was "Heart of Spain" is a documentary about the Spanish Civil War, with Hungarian photographer Geza Karpathi. The following year Kline teamed up with famed French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson to make "Return To Life" also about the conflict in Spain. In 1938 he documented Hitler's conquest of Czechoslovakia in his film, "Crisis". In the 1940 film "Lights Out in Europe", he posed as a Nazi sympathizer and filmed the invasion of Poland. In 1941 he worked with John Steinbeck on "The Forgotten Village", filmed in rural Mexico.