# The Emperor Jones

The Emperor Jones is a 1920 play by American dramatist, Eugene O'Neill which tells the tale of Brutus Jones (Paul Robeson), an African-American man who kills a man, goes to prison, escapes to a Caribbean island, and sets himself up as emperor.

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 1933
- Runtime: 1 h 13 min
- By: Gifford Cochran, John Krimsky
- Genres: Drama
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/TheEmpererJones)
- Licence or status: [Public domain (Creative Commons dedication)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/TheEmpererJones?play=1)