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Oscar Micheaux (1884–1951) was both writer, director and the first major Black filmmaker who made more than 40 films, including adaptations from his own novels. Stepin Fetchit , né Lincoln Perry (1902–1985), pictured in 1959, both criticized as a stereotype and praised as an archetype, was the first Black actor to earn $1 million.
She made film history in 2019 when her debut feature film “Atlantics” (2019) became the first movie from a Black female director to compete for the prestigious Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film ...
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The history of Black cinema is just as diverse, and thanks to streaming (for all its faults), film fans can watch films and documentaries made by both legendary and up-and-coming Black filmmakers.
Black Like Me; Nothing But a Man; One Potato, Two Potato; 1965. A Patch of Blue; 1966. Lost Command; A Man Called Adam; A Time for Burning* 1967. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1 remake: 2006) Hurry Sundown; In the Heat of the Night (2 sequels: 1970, 1971) The Story of a Three-Day Pass; 1968. Black Panthers* (France/US) Finian's Rainbow (Ireland ...
In the early days of cinema, African-American roles were scarce and often filled with stereotypes. Pioneers like Oscar Micheaux, one of the first significant African-American filmmakers, countered these narratives with films like The Homesteader (1919) and Body and Soul (1925), which were part of the "race film" genre and tackled issues such as racial violence, economic oppression, and ...
By the 1990s American attitudes on race were becoming more liberal and a new wave of films looked back at the Civil Rights Movement as history, beginning with Alan Parker's Mississippi Burning of 1989, right through to Ghosts of Mississippi in 1996. [14] More recently, Ava DuVernay's 2014 film Selma has shown there is much more in the civil ...
11. The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019). Who's in it: Jimmie Fails, Jonathan Majors, Rob Morgan, Tichina Arnold Rating: R Runtime: 121 minutes This heartfelt drama tells the story of Jimmie ...