Miriam Cooper Movies

Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.

Jack La Salle marries South American heiress Blanquetta Del Castillo, and the two settle into a happy life in New York City. Following the birth of...

Bob Taylor was a valuable man. Talbot, his employer, told Miriam as much, showing his daughter the good round sum which his new clerk had handed him...

Uncle Tom and Eliza's child are sold to Haley, a slave dealer. When Eliza learns that her son is to be taken from her, she steals the boy and runs...

A German spy who is married to Lillian, the sister of Rosie O'Grady.

After the relatively low box office takings of 'Intolerance', D. W. Griffith would revisit his epic film three years later by releasing two of the...

A fun-loving husband is mistaken for a bandit and sent to prison. He allows everyone, including his wife, to think he has died. Years later, he...

Maud Barhyte visits Paris with her fiancé, Gerald Welden, and her father. Sally Malakoff, Welden's childhood sweetheart whose marriage to the...

A farmer, unhappy with his life, decides to go the city to try and make his fortune. He takes a friend along with him. The two of them become...

Lady Lou is forced by Hatfield, her cruel foster father, into the dance hall life at a brutal lumber camp. Through the efforts of a stranger who is...