Oscar Micheaux

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

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 ...

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 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 ...