Oscar Micheaux

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

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 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 ...