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Oscar Devereaux Micheaux (January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951) was an American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films. Although the short-lived Micheaux Book & Film Company produced some films, he is regarded as the first major African-American feature filmmaker, the most successful African-American filmmaker of the first half of the twentieth century and the most prominent producer of race films. He produced both silent films and "talkies" after the industry changed to incorporate speaking actors.
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01 June 1921
Deceit (sometimes referred to as The Deceit) is a 1923 American silent black-and-white film. It is a conventional melodrama directed by Oscar Micheaux.
01 August 1930
Con artists try to trick an old man out of his life savings.
01 March 1923
Deceit (sometimes referred to as The Deceit) is a 1923 American silent black-and-white film. It is a conventional melodrama directed by Oscar Micheaux.
01 January 1940
Gangsters use a woman to get to a boxer and convince him to throw a big fight.
28 November 1927
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 to be part of a notorious family of criminals.
01 February 1924
A young black Harvard graduate fights against a variety of obstacles, including racist opposition, in order to build a school for black children.
01 January 1938
After graduating from Harvard University, Peter Siner returns to his small Tennessee hometown, where he hopes to start a school for black children.
17 March 1928
George Eldridge Van Paul, the son of a white father and a black mother, is brought up to believe that he is completely white.
28 November 1920
Eve Mason, a white-passing black woman, moves to a remote cottage she inherited from her late father.
01 February 1932
A young woman plans to marry, but her mother and brother--a lawyer--don't like her prospective husband and scheme to prevent the marriage.
01 October 1924
A Son of Satan is a 1924 silent race film directed, written, produced and distributed by Oscar Micheaux.
03 January 1927
A lost film. Remade by Micheaux as a sound film, The Girl from Chicago (1932).
02 February 1929
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 wild parties, and on women putting the company in financial difficulties.
09 November 1925
A convict escapes to a Southern town and passes himself off as a reverend, giving him the perfect cover to swindle the townspeople and corrupt an innocent young woman.
10 July 2021
A look at the extraordinary achievements and contemporary legacy of Oscar Micheaux, a pioneer of the African-American film industry.
12 January 1920
Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a traumatizing past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black children.
01 January 1922
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 of the murder of a white plantation owner.
01 January 1935
Helen Ware, an artist's model, known as the Brown Venus is sad, discouraged and unhappy. When her men friends learn that she often poses nude, they try to become unduly "friendly" or just shun her, with the result that a beautiful girl with the figure of a Goddess finds herself without a lover.
02 January 1939
A nightclub singer refuses to "date" customers, so she's framed for the murder of her aunt.
22 October 1928
An African-American violin prodigy overcomes her impoverished background to find success in music and love.
14 March 1932
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 crime boss.
01 June 1932
An Oscar Micheaux' film.
24 August 1920
An episode of the Screen Snapshots newsreels, showing seven segments of filmmakers behind the scenes.
15 May 1931
An idealistic young man is torn between a sultry Chicago nightclub owner and a Scottish South Dakotan farmgirl.
15 April 1923
The film focused on a young black man who joins the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and becomes a hero by rescuing a captive mixed-race woman from a hostile American Indian tribe.
29 April 1938
Ted Gregory is trying to be the first black producer to mount a show on Broadway, but he has trouble with his star singer.
24 June 1948
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.
05 April 1930
A US cavalry officer rescues a mulatto girl, raised in Africa, from slavers.
02 January 1927
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 his favor.
28 September 1925
Aileen Kennibrew, a charming and beautiful girl calls on one Richard Ellis, a motion picture producer, who is impressed by her modesty, refined personality and striking carriage and is persuaded to "try" her out in the movies.
01 June 1925
An Oscar Micheaux' feature film.
01 May 1938
Naomi, a light-skinned Black child, is abandoned by her mother and raised by the virtuous Mrs. Saunders.
17 March 1932
A movie producer offers a nightclub singer a role in his latest film, but all he really wants to do is bed her.
12 December 1935
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.
01 September 1937
A young Southern college student falls for the charms of a female nightclub owner while on summer break in Chicago - and soon enough meets her club co-owner boyfriend and his gangster pals.
22 May 1922
Myrtle Downing, an African-American woman, is coerced into marrying a corrupt would-be politician named Gyp Lassiter, even though she is really in love with Stephen Cameron, a young lawyer.
02 January 1919
Directed by Oscar Micheaux and Jerry Mills.
31 January 1931
With a series of long takes and frontal camera set-ups, Michaeux provides a record of several cabaret acts, using intertitles to separate the individual numbers.
02 January 1920
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 original fiance is thought dead.
24 July 1926
Screenplay adapted from Charles Chestnutt's novel.
01 January 1934
Gangsters in Harlem make plans to commit a kidnapping.
01 January 1921
When Arthur Gilpin, a black night watchman, finds young Myrtle Gunsaulus mysteriously murdered in the basement of a factory, he is charged with the crime.
