Corn Pone (1944, Soundie)

Starring:

• Skeets Tolbert & His Orchestra
• Lupe Carterio

Storyline
Soundie featuring Skeets Tolbert & His Orchestra and Lupe Carterio (vocals).

Reform School [a.k.a. Prison Bait] (1939, Re-released in 1944, Lost Film)

Starring:

• Louise Beavers 
• Reginald Fenderson 
• Monte Hawley

Storyline
Reform School (1939) was re-released as Prison Bait (1944). The picture deals with the brutal manner in which petty offenders are disciplined in reform school for juveniles, and with the campaign waged by a woman probation officer to substitute kindness and education. A parole violator is sentenced to reform school and while there becomes the victim of the superintendent and guard's cruelties. Later, his case is brought to the attention of the probation officer. Through her efforts the superintendent is removed and more humane and progressive discipline methods are implemented. Later, the guard steals and plants evidence that cast suspicion on the boy. The boy and his pals, however, take matters into their own hands. Breaking confinement, they round up the guard and force him to confess.

The Negro Soldier (1944)

Starring:

• William Broadus
• Clarence Brooks
• Norman Ford

IMDB.com
This production was made in partnership with the then called Department of War. The goal of this film was to recruit African-Americans to join the war effort in WWII. The film tries to convince blacks that the U.S. has always had an amicable relationship with them. The film offers happy imagery of blacks building log cabins beside the early settlers and working pleasantly beside whites in factories. However, never does the film try to explain or apologize for slavery. The film also suggests that blacks have always had the same opportunities as whites. In this film, slavery, lynchings and inequality are simply erased. For this reason, this film is a true treasure for the propaganda film archive.

Available at archive.org

Go Down, Death! (1944)

Starring:

• Spencer Williams
• Myra D. Hemmings
• Samuel H. James
• Irene Campbell
• Eddye L. Houston

Storyline
A bar owner attempts to discredit the new preacher with whom he is feuding by framing him with a photograph showing him drinking with women with bad reputations. The bar owner's adoptive mother, a member of the minister's church, supports the preacher and gets the photographic prints. When the bar owner struggles with his mother for the prints, he accidentally kills her. After the preacher's funeral sermon, the bar owner's conscience drives him to his death.