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2. Oscar Micheaux - Wikipedia

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   Oscar Devereaux Micheaux (US: / m ɪ ˈ ʃ oʊ / ⓘ; (January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951) was an American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films.. Although the short-lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the first movie company owned and controlled by black filmmakers, [1] Micheaux is regarded as the first major African-American feature filmmaker, a prominent ...

3. Harlem After Midnight - Wikipedia

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   Harlem After Midnight (1934) is an American black-and-white silent film directed by author and director Oscar Micheaux. A drama film, it featured an "all-colored cast". [1] As in most of the films created by Micheaux there is an all-black casting for the drama film. [2] It is a lost film.

4. The Homesteader - Wikipedia

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   The film was produced, co-directed and written for the screen by Micheaux, based on his book of the same name. It is believed [by whom?] to be the first feature-length film made with a black cast and crew, for a black audience, and thus the first example of a race movie. Most of the filming, if not all, took place in Winner, South Dakota.

5. 10 Best Free Movie Websites and Apps - AOL

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   The best free movie apps offer a wide variety of films and plenty of ways to watch them. Check out these top picks for alternatives to paid streaming services. 10 Best Free Movie Websites and Apps

6. The Dungeon (1922 film) - Wikipedia

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   The Dungeon is a 1922 race film directed, written, produced and distributed by Oscar Micheaux, considered the African-American Cecil B. DeMille due to his prolific output of films during the silent era, one of his greatest works being Body and Soul (1924). The Dungeon was his first horror effort, an early blaxploitation take on the Bluebeard ...

7. Swing (1938 film) - Wikipedia

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   Swing!, which is a public domain title, has been frequently shown in film festivals and retrospective series celebrating the creative output of Oscar Micheaux, a pioneering African-American filmmaker, [5] and it has also been broadcast on U.S. television in programming devoted to the history of African-American cinema.

8. Lying Lips - Wikipedia

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   Lying Lips is a 1939 American melodrama race film written and directed by Oscar Micheaux who co-produced the film with aviator Hubert Fauntlenroy Julian, starring Edna Mae Harris, and Robert Earl Jones (the father of James Earl Jones). Lying Lips was the thirty-seventh film of Micheaux. [1] The film was shot at the Biograph Studios in New York ...

9. Midnight Ramble (film) - Wikipedia

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   There are two versions of the title of the documentary, both referring to the same work. Initially released in 1994 as, Midnight Ramble: Oscar Micheaux & the Story of Race Movies [2] It was re-released as Midnight Ramble: The Story of the Black Film Industry by PBS in 1995 [3] The 1995 version also eliminates the David McCullugh introduction.