Pioneers of African-American Cinema
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Année : 0
Nombre de saisons : 1
Durée moyenne d'un épisode : 65 minutes
Genre(s) : Documentaire
Cette collection comprend plus de 20 films réalisés entre 1915 et 1946 par des cinéastes afro-américains d'avant-garde pour un public noir.
Saisons
Saison 1
Épisodes
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Épisode 1 - Hell-Bound Train
In this parable, sinners of all kinds board a hell-bound train conducted by Satan, while others choose not to board or leave and repent.
Épisode 2 - Hot Biskits / The Blood Of Jesus
A con man uses magnets to help his pal win a golf game. A godless man who accidentally shot his wife fervently prays while she dreams of redemption.
Épisode 3 - Verdict Not Guilty / Heaven-Bound Travelers
At the gates of Heaven, Truth defends an unmarried woman who died in childbirth. People fight despair and Satan's temptations on the way to heaven.
Épisode 4 - The Symbol of the unconquered: A Story of the KKK
A light-skinned black woman falls for a kind black man who thinks she's white. Both become targets of a self-loathing biracial man passing as white
Épisode 5 - Two Knights of Vaudeville / Mercy the Mummy Mumbled
Two men thrown out of a big vaudeville show put on their own show back home. To win his sweetheart, a man "helps" her scientist dad reanimate a mummy.
Épisode 6 - Birthright
A Harvard-educated black man goes back to his Southern hometown to start a school, but racism and love for a local girl throw obstacles in his path.
Épisode 7 - Veiled Aristocrats
When a young black man who passed for white in college returns to his hometown, he finds his light-skinned sister has fallen for a darker-skinned man.
Épisode 8 - Within Our Gates
A woman victimized by a cousin who secretly loved her fiancé tries to save a school for black children, but her past and society work against her.
Épisode 9 - The Girl from Chicago
After a federal agent falls for a Mississippi teacher and saves her from a crime kingpin, the pair escapes to Harlem, where safety still eludes them.
Épisode 10 - Ten Nights in a Bar Room
After a mill owner loses everything to an incorrigible vice lord, he becomes a drunkard -- until fate intervenes.
Épisode 11 - The Darktown Revue
Donald Heywood's Choir performs several songs. Tim Moore and other comedians appear in sketches between songs.
Épisode 12 - The Flying Ace
A former World War I flying ace becomes a railroad detective to go after a romantic rival and fellow aviator who pulls off a large payroll robbery.
Épisode 13 - Eleven P.M.
A writer who believes man's psyche can take refuge in lower animal forms falls asleep while working on a story and has a bizarre dream.
Épisode 14 - Dirty Gertie from Harlem USA
A famous and very flirtatious Harlem stripper visits a tropical island, where her past and her conscience catch up with her.
Épisode 15 - A Reckless Rover
A policeman tries to arrest a sleeping man in a boardinghouse, but he escapes, runs through the neighborhood, then hides in a Chinese laundry.
Épisode 16 - Body and Soul
An escaped criminal hides in a small town, posing as a pastor to steal from his congregation, work as a bootlegger and conceal his own depravity.
Épisode 17 - The Scar of Shame
A young composer marries a poor girl to save her from her stepfather's advances, but society's failure to help women like her continues to haunt them.
Épisode 18 - The Bronze Buckaroo
When cowboy Bob Blake learns that his friend Joe needs help, he rides to Joe's ranch but discovers he's been missing for weeks.
Épisode 19 - The Exile
A black man leaves Chicago and becomes a successful farmer, but after falling for a white woman, he returns and gets entangled with an old flame.
Épisode 20 - Ten Minutes to Live
At a Harlem nightclub, a woman receives a note saying she has only 10 minutes to live. The reason is connected to a murder from years before.
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