Oscar Micheaux Movies

An Oscar Micheaux' feature film.

Aileen Kennibrew, a charming and beautiful girl calls on one Richard Ellis, a motion picture producer, who is impressed by her modesty, refined...

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...

When Arthur Gilpin, a black night watchman, finds young Myrtle Gunsaulus mysteriously murdered in the basement of a factory, he is charged with the...

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...

An Oscar Micheaux' feature film.

Con artists try to trick an old man out of his life savings.

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.

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...

An Oscar Micheaux' film.

The brute is a gambler,boxing manager and underworld boss who mistreats a young woman, who is forced into marriage with him for money after her...

An African-American violin prodigy overcomes her impoverished background to find success in music and love. Based on Oscar Micheaux's unpublished...

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...

A young black Harvard graduate fights against a variety of obstacles, including racist opposition, in order to build a school for black children....

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.

Gangsters in Harlem make plans to commit a kidnapping.

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...

Myrtle Downing, an African-American woman, is coerced into marrying a corrupt would-be politician named Gyp Lassiter, even though she is really in...

A lost film. Remade by Micheaux as a sound film, The Girl from Chicago (1932).