Alec Lovejoy

Duke Ellington plays hot jazz in a fictional story that finds him down on his luck; he tries in vain to dissuade his friend, dancer Fredi Washington,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Duke Ellington

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.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Clarence Brooks

In this all-black cast short, legendary blues singer Bessie Smith finds her gambler lover Jimmy messin' with a pretty, younger woman; he leaves and...

Genre: Music

Cast: Bessie Smith

Ted Gregory is trying to be the first black producer to mount a show on Broadway, but he has trouble with his star singer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cora Green

It is the story of a comedian Lem Anderson who dreams of playing in Shakespeare scenes but he is applied only role in Harlem Vaudeville. One day he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mamie Smith

Hardworking Minnie (Cora Green) marries "Dollar" Bill (Bud Harris) a shady gambler after her money and her attractive daughter, Sue (Izanetta...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Buddy Harris

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jacqueline Lewis

Dramatic events in a Harlem apartment house center around Pa Wilkins, chosen by the Better Business League to replace their ousted, crooked leader...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mamie Smith

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Carman Newsome

Birthright is a 1924 film by Oscar Micheaux in 10 reels, adapted from Thomas Sigismund Stribling's novel of the same title (1922).

Genre: Drama

Cast: J. Homer Tutt