The restoration project added new sequences to Micheaux’s 1939 remake of his silent film Birthright. Read More »
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The Girl from Chicago (1932) Oscar Micheaux, Grace Smith, Carl Mahon, Eunice Brooks
An undercover government agent on a case in Mississipi meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman who’s being menaced by a local crime boss. Read More »
The Exile (1931) Leonard Harper, Oscar Micheaux, Eunice Brooks, Stanley Morrell, Celeste Cole
A young man named Jean in post-World War I Chicago falls in love with a beautiful girl named Edith. Read More »
The Symbol of the Unconquered (1920) Oscar Micheaux, Iris Hall, Walker Thompson, Lawrence Chenault
Eve Mason, a very light-skinned negro, leaves Selma, Alabama for the northwest town of Oristown Read More »
Body and Soul (1925) Oscar Micheaux, Paul Robeson, Marshall Rogers, Lawrence Chenault
A minister is malevolent and sinister behind his righteous facade. Read More »
Veiled Aristocrats (1932) Oscar Micheaux, Lucille Lewis, Walter Fleming, Laura Bowman
John Walden, left home 20 years earlier and has been “passing” as white in a town where no one knew of his background. Read More »
Ten Minutes to Live (1932) Oscar Micheaux, Lawrence Chenault, A.B. DeComathiere, Laura Bowman
A movie producer offers a nightclub singer a role in his latest film, but all he really wants to do is bed her. Read More »
Within Our Gates (1920) Oscar Micheaux, Evelyn Preer, Flo Clements, James D. Ruffin, Drama, Romance
Southern negro Sylvia Landry visits her cousin Alma in the north, where there is less racial prejudice than in her home town of Piney Woods in the deep south, and is anxiously awaiting her fiancé, Conrad. But Alma has designs on Conrad and tricks Sylvia into a compromising situation when he arrives, and he abandons her. Disheartened, she returns to Piney Woods to help a reverend running a school for young negroes. Sylvia learns that the reverend hasn’t the heart to turn away poor students, and unless he can raise $5,000 to supplement the $1.49 per child per year that the state supplies, the school will be closed. She goes up north again to try to raise the money and has little success, but meets kindly negro, Dr. V. Vivian, who helps her regain her stolen purse. When she saves a child from being hit by an auto, she herself is slightly injured. But the owner of the car is philanthropist Mrs. Elena Warwick, who is sympathetic to her quest and promises to donate the $5,000 to the school…
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