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- DirectorArthur DreifussStarsMonte HawleyJeni Le GonEdward ThompsonTommy McCoy and "Dude" Markey are both in love with Harlem singer/dancer Nita. Markey robs a jewelry store and turns the loot over to gang-boss Murray Howard. Later, Markey robs the safe, steals the jewelry, and, in order to get rid of his rival for Nita, frames the robbery on McCoy. The latter's big-brother thinks otherwise and, with Nita's help, sets out to prove it.
- DirectorJosh BinneyStarsDusty FletcherGeorge WiltshireButterfly McQueenAn all-Black comedy and dance revue with stars of stage and screen.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxClarence WilliamsStarsClarence BrooksDorothy Van EngleAndrew BishopA black night watchman at a chemical factory finds the body of a murdered white woman. After he reports it, he finds himself accused of the murder.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxJerry MillsStarsCharles D. LucasEvelyn PreerIris HallThe Homesteader involves six principal characters, the leading one being Jean Baptiste (Charles Lucas), a homesteader far off in the Dakotas, the lone African American living in the area. To this wilderness arrives Jack Stewart, a Scotsman, with his motherless daughter, Agnes (Iris Hall), who doesn't know that she is biracial. In Agnes, Baptiste meets the girl of his dreams. Peculiar fate threw her in the company of the Homesteader, but, because Baptiste is black and Agnes is presumably white, their love is forbidden by law. Baptiste eventually sacrifices the love of this girl of his dreams, goes back to his own people and marries Orlean, the daughter of a black preacher named McCarthy. McCarthy, the embodiment of vanity, deceit and hypocrisy, really admires the marriage his daughter has made. He speaks of the "rich" young man she has married, praises him to the highest. Baptiste does not know, however, that McCarthy requires and is in the habit of having people praise him. Baptiste does not do it because he is not of the temperament to do so. Because of this failure grows the tragedy of mismarriage to Orlean (Evelyn Preer), a sweet girl, kind and good, but like her mother, without the strength of her convictions. Baptiste, Orlean having failed him, is persecuted by McCarthy and by Ethel (McCarthy's other daughter), who, like her father, possesses all the evil a woman is capable of; she is married to weak-kneed Glavis. In the end, Orlean, driven insane by the evil she had been the innocent cause of, rights a wrong which causes Baptiste to go back to his land in the Dakotas, where he finds the girl he first discovered. Later, he learns[by whom?] the truth about her race and the story has a beautiful ending.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsEvelyn PreerFlo ClementsJames D. RuffinAbandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black youths.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsEvelyn PreerA.B. DeComathiereSam LangfordThe 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 original fiance is thought dead. When that man returns ,he attempts to rescue her.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsIris HallWalker ThompsonLawrence ChenaultRacists learn that the land a negro owns lies over a vast oil field, and threaten his life when he refuses to sell.
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- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsEvelyn PreerEdward R. AbramsLawrence ChenaultA young black man is accused of the murder of a white woman.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsWilliam FountaineShingzie HowardAlma SewellAbout the contents of a last will and testament left behind by an African-American sharecropper who was lynched after being falsely accused of the murder of a white plantation owner.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsLouise BordenWilliam FountaineShingzie HowardA young black man who joins the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and becomes a hero by rescuing a captive mixed-race woman from a hostile American Indian tribe. The young man later purchases a ranch that becomes the foundation for great financial wealth.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsJ. Homer TuttEvelyn PreerSalem Tutt WhitneyA young black Harvard graduate fights against a variety of obstacles, including racist opposition, in order to build a school for black children.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsAndrew BishopLawrence ChenaultShingzie HowardThe misadventures of a man who accepted a bet to spend a night in a haunted house.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsPaul RobesonMarshall RogersLawrence ChenaultA malevolent phony preacher plots to take advantage of a woman from his congregation who happens to be in love with his long-estranged identical twin brother.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsSalem Tutt WhitneyAmy Birdsong
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsEvelyn PreerLawrence Chenault
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsGrace SmithLaurence CrinerLionel MonagasAn 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 to be part of a notorious family of criminals.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsShingzie HowardAndrew BishopLawrence ChenaultRena ( Shingzie Howard ), a beautiful mulatto woman, who passes as white, receives a proposal from an aristocratic white millionaire who has fallen in love with her. Rena accepts without revealing the secret of her racial background. Unhappy, Rena returns to her former lover, Frank Fowler, a black man, who has risen to power despite his color. She tells him that although she has fooled the public, she has not fooled herself.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsWilliam EdmonsonA.B. DeComathiereArdelle DabneyGeorge Eldridge Van Paul, the son of a white father and a black mother, is brought up to believe that he is completely white. He falls in love with Hester Morgan, a black girl, but when she learns that he is white, she refuses to see him.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsKathleen NoisetteWilliam A. Clayton Jr.Bessie GivensDetails the plight of a young woman who falls in love and marries a glib con artist who abandons her without money on their wedding night.