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Dancing Darkey Boy (1897)

Summary: "Scene in a stable, where a crowd of horsemen, jockeys and stable hands are watching a little [colored] boy dance on a table."

Genre: Short

Director: William Heise

Production: Edison Manufacturing Company

Country: United States

Language: English

Something Good - Negro Kiss (1898)

Summary: A burlesque on the John Rice/May Irwin kiss in "The Kiss" (1896).

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Short

Director: William Nicholas Selig

Runtime: 0 h 01 min

Production: Selig Polyscope Company

Country: United States

Language: English

Within Our Gates (1920)

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

Release Date: January 12, 1920

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Oscar Micheaux

Writer: Oscar Micheaux

Runtime: 1 h 19 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Micheaux Book & Film Company

Distributor: Micheaux Book & Film Company, Quality Amusement Corporation, Image Entertainment, Smithsonian Video, Micheaux Book & Film Company, Grapevine Video, Kino Lorber, Facets Multimedia Distribution, Movies Unlimited, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Just Pals (1920)

Summary: Small-town tramp befriends runaway boy.

Release Date: November 18, 1920

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Western

Director: John Ford

Writers: John McDermott

, Paul Schofield

Runtime: 0 h 50 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Fox Film Corporation

Country: United States

Language: English

Seven Chances (1925)

Summary: A man learns that he will inherit a fortune if he marries by 7PM that evening.

Release Date: March 15, 1925

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Buster Keaton

Writers: Roi Cooper Megrue

, Clyde Bruckman

, Jean C. Havez

Runtime: 0 h 56 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Buster Keaton Productions

Distributor: Kino Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Body and Soul (1925)

Summary: A malevolent phony preacher plots to take advantage of a woman from his congregation who happens to be in love with his long-estranged identical twin brother.

Release Date: November 09, 1925

Genre: Drama

Director: Oscar Micheaux

Writer: Oscar Micheaux

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Micheaux Film

Distributor: Kino Lorber, The Criterion Channel, BuckRay TV

Country: United States

Language: English

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927)

Summary: Slavery tears apart a Black family in the South before the start of the Civil War.

Release Date: September 02, 1928

Genres: Drama, History

Director: Harry A. Pollard

Writers: Harriet Beecher Stowe

, Walter Anthony

, Harry A. Pollard

Runtime: 2 h 24 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Universal Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,500,000

The Crowd (1928)

Summary: The life of a man and woman together in a large, impersonal metropolis through their hopes, struggles, and downfalls.

Release Date: March 03, 1928

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: King Vidor

Writers: King Vidor

, John V.A. Weaver

, Joseph Farnham

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Hallelujah! (1929)

Summary: A sharecropper decides to become a preacher after falling for a vamp from the city.

Release Date: August 20, 1929

Genres: Drama, Musical

Director: King Vidor

Writers: Wanda Tuchock

, Richard Schayer

, Ransom Rideout

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Black and Tan (1929)

Summary: Duke Ellington in a jazz musical short with a tragic plotline.

Release Date: December 08, 1929

Genres: Drama, Music, Short

Director: Dudley Murphy

Writer: Dudley Murphy

Runtime: 0 h 19 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: RKO Radio Pictures

Distributor: RKO Radio Pictures, Kino Video

Country: United States

Language: English

St. Louis Blues (1929)

Summary: In her only known film appearance, legendary blues singer Bessie Smith witnesses her lover's betrayal, then sings a powerful rendition of the title song.

Release Date: September 08, 1929

Genres: Drama, Music, Short

Director: Dudley Murphy

Writer: Dudley Murphy

Runtime: 0 h 16 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: RKO Radio Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

The Girl from Chicago (1932)

Summary: 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. He rescues the girl, and they leave Mississippi and head to Harlem, but their t...

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Oscar Micheaux

Writer: Oscar Micheaux

Runtime: 1 h 10 min

Production: Micheaux Film

Distributor: Micheaux Pictures Corporation, Norman Distributing Company, Alpha Video Distributors, Facets Multimedia Distribution, Synergy Entertainment, The Criterion Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Baby Face (1933)

Summary: A young woman, sexually exploited all her life, decides to turn the tables and exploit the hapless men at a big city bank by gleefully seducing her way to the top.

Release Date: November 17, 1933

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Alfred E. Green

Writers: Gene Markey

, Kathryn Scola

, Darryl F. Zanuck

Runtime: 1 h 11 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., Associated Artists Productions (AAP), United Artists Television, MGM/UA Entertainment Company, Turner Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 187,000

Judge Priest (1934)

Summary: Judge Priest, a proud Confederate veteran, uses common sense and considerable humanity to dispense justice in a small town in the Post-Bellum Kentucky.

Release Date: September 28, 1934

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: John Ford

Writers: Irvin S. Cobb

, Dudley Nichols

, Lamar Trotti

Runtime: 1 h 20 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Fox Film Corporation

Distributor: Peter Rodgers Organization, Reel Media International, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Film Detective

Country: United States

Language: English

Murder in Harlem (1935)

Summary: A black night watchman at a chemical factory finds the body of a murdered white woman. After he reports it, he finds himself accused of the murder.

Release Date: December 12, 1935

Genres: Drama, Mystery

Directors: Oscar Micheaux

, Clarence Williams

Writers: Oscar Micheaux

, Clarence Williams

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: TV-G

Production: Micheaux Film

Distributor: Micheaux Pictures Corporation, Alpha Video Distributors

Country: United States

Language: English

Show Boat (1936)

Summary: Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.

Release Date: May 17, 1936

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Musical

Director: James Whale

Writers: Edna Ferber

, Oscar Hammerstein II

, Zoe Akins

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Universal Pictures

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Archive Collection, Warner Home Video, The Criterion Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

The Green Pastures (1936)

Summary: God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.

Release Date: August 01, 1936

Genre: Drama

Directors: Marc Connelly

, William Keighley

Writers: Roark Bradford

, Marc Connelly

, Sheridan Gibney

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Associated Artists Productions (AAP), Key Video, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

A Day at the Races (1937)

Summary: A veterinarian posing as a doctor teams with a singer and his friends as they struggle to save an upstate New York sanitarium with the help of a misfit racehorse.

Release Date: June 11, 1937

Genres: Comedy, Musical, Sport

Director: Sam Wood

Writers: Robert Pirosh

, George Seaton

, George Oppenheimer

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), MGM/CBS Home Video, Warner Home Video, MGM/UA Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,016,000

Destry Rides Again (1939)

Summary: Deputy sheriff Destry tames the town of Bottle Neck, including saloon singer Frenchy.

Release Date: December 23, 1939

Genres: Comedy, Western

Director: George Marshall

Writers: Felix Jackson

, Gertrude Purcell

, Henry Myers

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Universal Pictures, Universal Pictures

Distributor: Realart Pictures, MCA Home Video, CST Entertainment Imaging, MCA/Universal Home Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 345,000

Way Down South (1939)

Summary: In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son. While the deceased treated his slaves decently, his corrupt executor abuses them unmercifully, beating the...

Release Date: July 21, 1939

Genres: Action, Music

Directors: Leslie Goodwins