Oscar Micheaux Movies

An episode of the Screen Snapshots newsreels, showing seven segments of filmmakers behind the scenes. Featuring Oscar Micheaux,Colleen Moore, Ormer...

The brute is a gambler, boxing manager and underworld boss who mistreats a young woman. She is forced into marriage with him for money after her...

A look at the extraordinary achievements and contemporary legacy of Oscar Micheaux, a pioneer of the African-American film industry.

In this film, African-American Leroy Collins struggles with the onus placed on him by Society when he falls in love with a white woman.

An Oscar Micheaux' feature film.

Rena is a young woman of mixed race. Although she is romantically pursued by an upwardly mobile African American named Frank, Rena does not decide in...

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

Screenplay adapted from Charles Chestnutt's novel.

Film producer Winston L. Jaune gives his brother J. Lee a job in his company. J. Lee promptly steals company funds, spends lavishly in cabarets, at...

An African-American violin prodigy overcomes her impoverished background to find success in music and love. Based on Oscar Micheaux's unpublished...

George Eldridge Van Paul, the son of a white father and a black mother, is brought up to believe that he is completely white. He falls in love with...

Directed by Oscar Micheaux and Jerry Mills.

Con artists try to trick an old man out of his life savings.

A drama about the contents of a last will and testament left behind by an African-American sharecropper who was lynched after being falsely accused...

A lost film. Remade by Micheaux as a sound film, The Girl from Chicago (1932).

An African American entrepreneur who has built up his fortune in South America returns to the U.S. and falls in love with a young woman who turns out...

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....

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

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

A nightclub singer refuses to "date" customers, so she's framed for the murder of her aunt.