Oscar Micheaux Movies

A Son of Satan is a 1924 silent race film directed, written, produced and distributed by Oscar Micheaux. The film follows the misadventures of a man...

With a series of long takes and frontal camera set-ups, Michaeux provides a record of several cabaret acts, using intertitles to separate the...

Gangsters in Harlem make plans to commit a kidnapping.

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...

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

Oscar's phone predicts the future.

Screenplay adapted from Charles Chestnutt's novel.

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

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

An Oscar Micheaux' feature film.

The film focused on a young black man who joins the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and becomes a hero by rescuing a captive mixed-race woman from a...

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...

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...

George 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...

A US cavalry officer rescues a mulatto girl, raised in Africa, from slavers.

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

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...

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

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...