Jericho [a.k.a. Dark Sands] (1937)

Starring:

• Paul Robeson
• Henry Wilcoxon
• Wallace Ford
• Kouka
• John Laurie
• James Carew
• Lawrence Brown
• Rufus Fennell
• Ike Hatch

Storyline
During the Great War, a Negro corporal, Jericho Jackson, disobeys an order and saves crewmen trapped below deck after an attack. A sergeant dies in the incident; Jackson is court-martialed and sentenced to death. He bolts and his captain unjustly gets a five-year sentence for aiding his escape; the captain vows to bring Jackson to justice. Meanwhile, Jackson has stolen a boat and sailed from Bordeaux to Morocco, where his skills as a physician give him a new lease on life. He becomes a chief responsible for negotiating peace among tribes and leading the annual grand salt caravan. A confrontation with his old captain is, however, unavoidable. Can there be justice?

Hurry Sundown (1967)

Starring:

• Diahann Carroll 
• Robert Hooks
• Michael Caine 
• Jane Fonda
• John Phillip Law
• Beah Richards 
• Faye Dunaway 
• Burgess Meredith

Storyline
Following the Second World War, a northern cannery combine negotiates for the purchase of a large tract of uncultivated Georgia farmland. The major portion of the land is owned by Julie Ann Warren and has already been optioned by her unscrupulous, draft dodging husband, Henry. Now the combine must also obtain two smaller plots - one owned by Henry's cousin Rad McDowell, a combat veteran with a wife and family; the other by Reeve Scott, a young black man whose mother had been Julie's childhood Mammy. But neither Rad nor Reeve is interested in selling and they form an unprecedented black and white partnership to improve their land. Although infuriated by the turn of events, Henry remains determined to push through the big land deal. And when Reeve's mother Rose dies, Henry tries to persuade his wife to charge Reeve with illegal ownership of his property, confident the the bigoted Judge Purcell will rule against a Negro. 

Classified X (1998)

Starring:

• Melvin Van Peebles

IMDB.com
Melvin Van Peebles is never short on opinions. I'd find it a lot easier to accept them if he weren't responsible for the vastly overrated Sweet Sweetback's Baadassss Song (forgive me if I omitted any 'a's or 's's from the title) and cinematic atrocities such as the racist, sexist, and plain awful Identity Crisis. Nonetheless, this is a fascinating and frequently dead on documentary about Hollywood's treatment of African American filmmakers.