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The Black Kino Fist: Black life as depicted in film historyMain MenuThe Black Kino FistThe ProjectA Fool and His Money (1912)Directed by Alice Guy-BlachéWithin Our Gates (1920)Directed by Oscar MicheauxBody and Soul (1924)Directed by Oscar MicheauxThe Scar of Shame (1927)Directed by Frank PereginiHallelujah (1929)Directed by King VidorThe Exile (1931)Directed by Oscar MicheauxImitation of Life (1934)Directed by John M. StahlHarlem on the Prairie (1937)Directed by Sam NewfieldThe Blood of Jesus (1941)Directed by Spencer WilliamsStormy Weather (1943)Directed by Andrew L. StoneHome of the Brave (1949)Directed by Mark RobsonPinky (1949)Directed by Elia KazanNo Way Out (1950)Directed by Joseph L. MankiewiczThe Jackie Robinson Story (1950)Directed by Alfred E. GreenCry, the Beloved Country (1951)Directed by Zoltán KordaCarmen Jones (1954)Directed by Otto PremingerBlackboard Jungle (1955)Directed by Richard BrooksBand of Angels (1957)Directed by Raoul WalshSt. Louis Blues (1958)Directed by Allen ReisnerThe Defiant Ones (1958)Directed by Stanley KramerPorgy and Bess (1959)Directed by Otto PremingerA Raisin in the Sun (1961)Directed by Daniel PetrieParis Blues (1961)Directed by Martin RittA Patch of Blue (1965)Directed by Guy GreenGuess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)Directed by Stanley KramerIn the Heat of the Night (1967)Directed by Norman JewisonTo Sir, With Love (1967)Directed by James ClavellThe Story of a Three-Day Pass (1968)Directed by Melvin Van PeeblesSweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)Directed by Melvin Van PeeblesSounder (1972)Directed by Martin RittThe Wilby Conspiracy (1975)Directed by Ralph NelsonA Soldier's Story (1984)Directed by Norman JewisonThe Color Purple (1985)Directed by Steven SpielbergShe's Gotta Have it (1986)Directed by Spike LeeMississippi Burning (1988)Directed by Alan ParkerDo the Right Thing (1989)Directed by Spike LeeGlory (1989)Directed by Edward ZwickParis is Burning (1990)Directed by Jennie LivingstonDaughters of the Dust (1991)Directed by Julie DashMississippi Masala (1991)Malcolm X (1992)Directed by Spike LeeDevil in a Blue Dress (1995)Directed By Carl FranklinWaiting to Exhale (1995)Directed by Forest WhitakerEve's Bayou (1997)Directed by Kasi LemmonsUnBowed (1999)Directed by Nanci RossovSomething New (2006)Directed by Sanaa HamriThe Princess and the Frog (2009)Directed by Ron Clements and John MuskerPariah (2011)Directed by Dee ReesDear White People (2014)Directed by Justin SimienMoonlight (2016)Directed by Barry JenkinsAlexandria Paul014600705294d3be68699bbfdbd499ecb5541133
The Homesteader (1919)
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This Oscar Micheaux film was the first feature length film to have an all Black cast and crew.
The Plot: In South Dakota, Agnes Stewart, a Scottish girl takes refuge in an isolated house during a blizzard. Hearing cries outside, she rescues Jean Baptiste, a Black homesteader who was in danger of freezing to death. Baptiste falls in love with Agnes, who does not know that she is not White. Baptiste despairs of overcoming the social barriers that prevent their union. He returns east and marries Orlean, the daughter of McCarthy, a vain and greedy minister. Baptiste is persecuted by McCarthy and by Ethel (McCarthy’s other daughter), who, like her father, possesses “all the evil a woman is capable of.” When Orlean goes insane and commits suicide, Baptiste returns to South Dakota, finds Agnes and discovers that she is really Black. The two are able to be together and find happiness at last.
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