Blackface Movies

A group of self-absorbed actors set out to make the most expensive war film ever. When budgets skyrocket and schedules fall far behind, the director...

As the era of silent films finds itself at a close, four down-and-out silent film actors and musicians struggle to find work. Fate leads them to a...

Frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea, producer Pierre Delacroix pitches the worst idea he can think of in an attempt to get fired: a...

A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the...

Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday -- which is today -- he'll inherit $7 million...

It's Prohibition, and the boys wind up behind bars after Stan sells some of their home-brew beer to a policeman.

A campus culture war between Blacks and whites at a predominantly white Ivy League college comes to a head when the staff of a satirical magazine...

An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.

A mysterious door in the basement of the Hercules house leads to the Sixth Dimension by way of a gigantic set of intestine. When lovely exchange...

Topsy, a Black slave girl who "jes' growed" is auctioned but nobody will bid. A young girl named Eva purchases Topsy for a nickel.

Amos and Andy trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a...

A black voodoo priestess comes out of the Louisiana swamps to take revenge on the white plantation owner she believes killed her husband. The old...

A simple filmed performance featuring Cantor, done up in his stage minstrel makeup, allegedly at the Ziegfeld Theatre Roof Garden, but actually...

Bradshaw, an Englishman, is arrested for the New York killing of booze racketeer Buck Cooly. Interrogated by police chief Galvin, Bradshaw claims...

After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school...

A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.

A dramatization of the 1836 Texas Revolution, focusing on the buildup, the siege of Béxar, the defense of the Alamo by 185 Texans against...

"Bamboula": this word was chosen in the 1980s for a chocolate cookie well known to children at the time. In 1994, he sponsored an Ivorian village set...

A surreal silent short composed of symbolic imagery and allegorical tableaux centered on themes of death and mortality.