Oscar Micheaux Filmography

Here is a comprehensive list of films from African American pioneer filmmaker, Oscar Micheaux.

Filmography:

• 1948 - The Betrayal
• 1940 - The Notorious Elinor Lee
• 1939 - Birthright
• 1939 - Lying Lips
• 1938 - God's Step Children
• 1938 - Swing!
• 1937 - Underworld
• 1935 - Murder in Harlem (uncredited)
• 1935 - Temptation
• 1934 - Harlem After Midnight
• 1933 - Phantom of Kenwood
• 1932 - Black Magic
• 1932 - Ten Minutes to Live
• 1932 - Veiled Aristocrats
• 1932 - The Girl from Chicago
• 1931 - The Exile
• 1931 - The Darktown Revue (Short)
• 1930 - Easy Street
• 1930 - A Daughter of the Congo
• 1929 - Wages of Sin
• 1928 - When Men Betray
• 1928 - Thirty Years Later
• 1927 - The Broken Violin
• 1927 - The House Behind the Cedars
• 1927 - The Millionaire
• 1927 - The Spider's Web
• 1926 - The Conjure Woman
• 1926 - The Devil's Disciple
• 1925 - Marcus Garland
• 1925 - Body and Soul
• 1924 - A Son of Satan
• 1924 - Birthright
• 1923 - The Virgin of Seminole
• 1923 - Deceit
• 1922 - Uncle Jasper's Will
• 1922 - The Dungeon
• 1921 - The Hypocrite
• 1921 - The Gunsaulus Mystery
• 1920 - The Symbol of the Unconquered
• 1920 - The Brute
• 1920 - Within Our Gates
• 1919 - The Homesteader

Lydia Bailey (1952)

Starring:

• William Marshall
• Dale Robertson 
• Anne Francis 
• Bill Walker 
• Roy Glenn 
• Juanita Moore 
• Maidie Norman 
• Ken Renard 

Storyline
Dale Robertson plays Albion Hamlin, a young lawyer from Baltimore, who travels to Haiti in 1802 in search for Lydia Bailey (Anne Francis), who needs to resolve a legal matter. The island is devastated because of the conflict facing Toussaint L’Overture, the black president, and the French, who try to take over the country once again. With the help of King Dick (William Marshall), Hamlin meets with Lydia, and in the middle of the war and rebellion, they fall in love and decide to help the Haitians in their fight against the French.

Separate But Equal (1991, TV Movie)

Starring:

• Sidney Poitier 
• Cleavon Little
• Burt Lancaster
• Richard Kiley
• Gloria Foster 

Storyline
The year is 1950...and America is divided between black and white. Schools, restaurants, trains, and buses...even drinking fountains cannot be shared by both races. Although slavery has been outlawed for nearly a century, segregation is legal. But white and Negro facilities are separate and unequal...and the tension had reached a breaking point for the blacks of Clarendon County, South Carolina. When their request for a single school bus is denied by white school officials, a bitter, violent and courageous battle for justice and equality begins...pitting black against white and friend against neighbor all across the country.

The dramatic evens leading from a small rural classroom to the Supreme Court decision that outlawed segregation are powerfully reenacted in this contemporary screen classic, beautifully scripted and superbly portrayed by some of Hollywood's finest actors. Sidney Poitier is Thurgood Marshall, the NAACP lawyer who took the struggle for equal rights to the highest court in the land. Burt Lancaster plays John W. Davis, the opposing counsel, and Richard Kiley is Chief Justice Earl Warren, who rallied the Court to landmark ruling. Together they capture the complex emotional dynamics of one of the country's most significant and inspiring achievements. 

Heat Wave (1990, TV Movie)

Starring:

• Cicely Tyson
• Blair Underwood 
• James Earl Jones
• Margaret Avery 
• Robert Hooks 
• Glenn Plummer 
• Vondie Curtis-Hall 

Storyline
On August 11, 1965, a routine traffic stop on a hot summer night sparks years of pent-up frustration within Los Angeles' African American community into a race riot that shocks the United States as it rages out of control for days. In this true story, when the all-white staff of main newspaper in the city, The Los Angeles Times, cannot get into work, a young, Black trainee Robert Richardson writes a series of Pulitzer prize-winning articles covering the riots. But as Richardson witnesses the excessive violence used by the police and national guard, he is torn between the impartiality required of a reporter and his need to rage against injustice.