Oscar Micheaux

A movie producer offers a nightclub singer a role in his latest film, but all he really wants to do is bed her. She knows, but accepts anyway. ...

After graduating from Harvard University, Peter Siner returns to his small Tennessee hometown, where he hopes to start a school for black children.

A Black night watchman at a chemical factory finds the body of a murdered white woman. After reporting it, he finds himself accused of the murder.

An idealistic young man is torn between a sultry Chicago nightclub owner and a Scottish South Dakotan farmgirl.

Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a traumatizing past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished ...

Eve Mason, a white-passing black woman, moves to a remote cottage she inherited from her late father. She makes the acquaintance of her neighbor, ...

With a series of long takes and frontal camera set-ups, Michaeux provides a record of several cabaret acts, using intertitles to separate the ...

A young Southern college student falls for the charms of a female nightclub owner while on summer break in Chicago – and soon enough meets ...

Ted Gregory is trying to be the first black producer to mount a show on Broadway, but he has trouble with his star singer.

A nightclub singer refuses to “date” customers, so she’s framed for the murder of her aunt.

Naomi, a light-skinned Black child, is abandoned by her mother and raised by the virtuous Mrs. Saunders. When the girl’s fixation with ...

A young woman plans to marry, but her mother and brother–a lawyer–don’t like her prospective husband and scheme to prevent the ...

An undercover government agent on a case in Mississippi meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman who’s being menaced by a local ...

A minister is malevolent and sinister behind his righteous facade. He consorts with, and later extorts from, the owner of a gambling house, and ...