Race Films DVD Set
Box set found on eBay, Etsy and Amazon. 75 full feature length Race Films, plus 45 short Race Films.
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shorts not found in IMDb:
o A STUDY OF EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITIES IN SOUTH CAROLINA 1936
o THE NEGRO FARMER 1937
o THE NEGRO IN ENTERTAINMENT 1939
o RED HOT HEAT 1942
o THE NEGRO PILOTS 1943
o RATION BLUES 1944
o BIPP BANG BOOGIE 1944
o BLUES AND BOOGIE 1945
o THE NEGRO IN SPORTS 1949
o NEW GIRL IN THE OFFICE 1959
o THE NEGRO IN INDUSTRY 1962
http://www.blacknews.com/news/trend-entertainment-race-films-dvd-set-75-classic-black-movies-45-short-race-films/#.Wg2DYTdry00
No idea if quality is better than online prints.
shorts not found in IMDb:
o A STUDY OF EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITIES IN SOUTH CAROLINA 1936
o THE NEGRO FARMER 1937
o THE NEGRO IN ENTERTAINMENT 1939
o RED HOT HEAT 1942
o THE NEGRO PILOTS 1943
o RATION BLUES 1944
o BIPP BANG BOOGIE 1944
o BLUES AND BOOGIE 1945
o THE NEGRO IN SPORTS 1949
o NEW GIRL IN THE OFFICE 1959
o THE NEGRO IN INDUSTRY 1962
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- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsEvelyn PreerFlo ClementsJames D. RuffinAbandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black youths.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsIris HallWalker ThompsonLawrence ChenaultRacists learn that the land a negro owns lies over a vast oil field, and threaten his life when he refuses to sell.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsPaul RobesonMarshall RogersLawrence ChenaultA malevolent phony preacher plots to take advantage of a woman from his congregation who happens to be in love with his long-estranged identical twin brother.
- DirectorFrank PereginiStarsHarry HendersonNorman JohnstoneAnn KennedyAn educated, upscale young black musician marries a woman from a lower socioeconomic class to get her out of the clutches of her stepfather, who beats and abuses her. However, once he "saves" her, he won't let his new wife meet his mother, as he knows she will be angry and disappointed with him for marrying someone "below his station".
- DirectorRichard MauriceStarsRichard MauriceSammie FieldsOrine JohnsonA surreal melodrama in which a poor violinist named Sundaisy (Maurice) tries to protect an orphan girl (Wand Maurice) from a small-time hoodlum.
- DirectorKenneth MacPhersonStarsPaul RobesonEslanda RobesonHilda DoolittleA negro woman having an adulterous affair with a white man causes his wife to go mad and re-enforces the towns-folk's prejudice against Negroes.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsEunice BrooksStanley MorrellCeleste ColeA young man named Jean in post-World War I Chicago falls in love with a beautiful girl named Edith. He proposes to her, but realizes that she's involved in the rackets and won't leave them, so he goes back home to South Dakota, where he becomes a successful rancher. There he falls for a white girl, but guilt drives him back to Chicago, where he runs into Edith again, and they agree to marry. When Edith is later found murdered, Jean is blamed for the crime.
- DirectorIrwin FranklynStarsBill RobinsonEubie BlakeJohn 'Spider Bruce' MasonThe director and star of a Harlem theater troupe puts his feelings aside to help unite two lovers.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsLawrence ChenaultA.B. DeComathiereLaura BowmanA movie producer offers a nightclub singer a role in his latest film, but all he really wants to do is bed her. She knows, but accepts anyway. Meanwhile, a patron at the club gets a note saying that she'll soon get another note, and that she will be killed ten minutes after that.
- DirectorBud PollardStarsA.B. DeComathiereVivianne BaberKnolly MitchellAn unscrupulous minister starts a 'back to Africa' movement.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsLucille LewisWalter FlemingLaura BowmanJohn Walden, left home 20 years earlier and has been "passing" as white in a town where no one knew of his background. He returns home to take his now grown sister back with him so she too can live a life as a white woman. He even goes so far as to find her a suitable white man to marry. Unfortunately, she can not get over the young black man she left back home.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsCarl MahonStarr CallowayAlice B. RussellAn undercover government agent on a case in Mississipi meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman who's being menaced by a local crime boss. He rescues the girl, and they leave Mississippi and head to Harlem, but their troubles follow them: they become involved in the murder of a local crime boss there.
- DirectorDudley MurphyWilliam C. de MilleStarsPaul RobesonDudley DiggesFrank H. WilsonUnscrupulously ambitious Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.
- DirectorArthur HoerlStarsLaura BowmanAugustus SmithMorris McKennyIn a small Southern town, Baptist preacher Amos Berry and a local voodoo priestess, Auntie Hagar, get together to thwart the aims of a pimp who has come to town to recruit a beautiful young girl, Myrtle Simpson. In addition, Auntie Hagar's grandson is aiming to marry the young girl, which Auntie Hagar is also determined to stop.aka LOUISIANA 1934
- DirectorOscar MicheauxClarence WilliamsStarsClarence BrooksDorothy Van EngleAndrew BishopA black night watchman at a chemical factory finds the body of a murdered white woman. After he reports it, he finds himself accused of the murder.
- DirectorZoltan KordaStarsPaul RobesonLeslie BanksNina Mae McKinneyA British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930s rules his area strictly but justly. He struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a loyal native chief.
- DirectorJ. Elder WillsStarsPaul RobesonElisabeth WelchEsme PercyA black British dockworker named Johnny Zinga becomes a famous singer and learns that he is the rightful king of the African island of Casanga.
- DirectorHarry L. FraserRalph CooperStarsRalph CooperCleo HerndonClarence BrooksA low-level gangster determines to let nothing stand in the way of his gaining control of the numbers rackets in Harlem.
- DirectorThornton FreelandStarsPaul RobesonHenry WilcoxonWallace FordDuring WWI, action hero Robeson escapes an unjust death sentence to ramble around Arabia.JERICHO 1937
- DirectorHarry L. FraserStarsJoe LouisClarence MuseEdna Mae HarrisThe story of the rise of boxer Joe Thomas, which paralleled the life of Joe Louis.
- DirectorJ. Elder WillsStarsPaul RobesonElisabeth WelchRoy EmertonIn this musical comedy, Paul Robeson stars as Joe, a Marseilles docker hired by a wealthy English couple to find their missing son. When Joe finds him, he learns he escaped of his own will, and takes him to stay with a local singer. They offer him a refuge from his repressed white parents.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsBee FreemanSol Johnson'Slick' ChesterA young college student falls under the influence of a murderous gambler.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsJacqueline LewisEthel MosesAlice B. RussellA young light-skinned Negress struggles to find her place in both the black and the white worlds.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsCora GreenLarry SeymourHazel DiazTed Gregory is trying to be the first black producer to mount a show on Broadway, but he has trouble with his star singer.
- DirectorRichard C. KahnStarsHerb JeffriesMarguerite WhittenClarence BrooksA cowboy is wrongfully accused of murder. He winds up in Harlem, where he assumes the identity of a preacher-turned-gangster who looks like him. He infiltrates the gang to catch the men who framed him.