Alec Lovejoy

Duke Ellington plays hot jazz in a fictional story that finds him down on his luck; he tries in vain to dissuade his friend, dancer Fredi Washington,...

Release : 1929.12.08
Popularity : 2.695

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.

Release : 1935.12.12
Popularity : 5.013

In this all-black cast short, legendary blues singer Bessie Smith finds her gambler lover Jimmy messin' with a pretty, younger woman; he leaves and...

Release : 1929.09.08
Popularity : 0.958

Ted Gregory is trying to be the first black producer to mount a show on Broadway, but he has trouble with his star singer.

Release : 1938.04.29
Popularity : 0.593

It is the story of a comedian Lem Anderson who dreams of playing in Shakespeare scenes but he is applied only role in Harlem Vaudeville. One day he...

Release : 1939.01.01
Popularity : 0.658

Hardworking Minnie (Cora Green) marries "Dollar" Bill (Bud Harris) a shady gambler after her money and her attractive daughter, Sue (Izanetta...

Release : 1939.05.12
Popularity : 3.1

Naomi, a light-skinned Black child, is abandoned by her mother and raised by the virtuous Mrs. Saunders. When the girl's fixation with whiteness...

Release : 1938.01.01
Popularity : 0.364

Dramatic events in a Harlem apartment house center around Pa Wilkins, chosen by the Better Business League to replace their ousted, crooked leader...

Release : 1941.01.01
Popularity : 1.431

After graduating from Harvard University, Peter Siner returns to his small Tennessee hometown, where he hopes to start a school for black children.

Release : 1938.01.01
Popularity : 1.484

Birthright is a 1924 film by Oscar Micheaux in 10 reels, adapted from Thomas Sigismund Stribling's novel of the same title (1922).

Release : 1924.02.01
Popularity : 0.88