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Basin Street Revue

Musical variety filmed at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, New York City.

Apollo Show-Inner Ci

Example of Apollo show

Within Our Gates

Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated negro woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished negro you

Get Christie Love

(1974) Teresa Graves. A black & sassy undercover operative uses street smarts, revealing outfits and Kung-Fu to penetrate the thriving drug dealing c

The Black Godfather

1974) Rod Perry. A neighborhood hoodlum fights his way to the top of a drug-selling gang

Black Fist

(1975) Aka "Bogarde." To make money, a Los Angeles street-fighter goes to work for gangsters. With Richard Lawson.

Black Brigade

(1970) All-black World War-II brigade with Stephen Boyd, Robert Hooks, Paul Stewart, Richard Pryor, Susan Oliver, Glynn E. Turman, Billy Dee Williams

Rock Rock Rock

(1956) Early Rock 'n Roll film starring Tuesday Weld, but also featuring performances by these black singers and groups: The Moonglows, The Flamingos

The Joe Louis Story

(1953) 88 min. Coley Wallace in biography of the Heaveyweight champ.

The Jackie Robinson

(1950) 76 min. Jackie Robinson stars in own biography as first black baseball player in majors

The Emperer Jones

(1933) 72 min. Paul Robeson plays a porter who escapes from a chain gang to become king of a Caribbean island. Based on the play by Eugene O’Neil.

Check and Double Che

(1930) 80 min. Radio’s Amos ‘N Andy (white actors Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll in black face) in a feature comedy. With Duke Ellington.

Spirit of Youth

(1938) 66 min. Boxer Joe Louis stars in the story of the rise of boxer Joe Thomas, which paralleled the life of Joe Louis.

Rock n Roll Revue

(1955) Two one-hour compilations of black performers on stage: Dinah Washington, Mantan Moreland, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Safah Vaughn, Lionel

Reet Petite and Gone

(1947) 67 min. Bandleader Louis Jordan stars in a dual role. With “Cab Calloway’s Jitterbug Party,” "Scrub Me Mama" Cartoon and Louis Armstrong

Paradise in Harlem

1939) 85 min. Crime drama centered on a club singer who aspires to be a great dramatic actor.

Murder with Music

(1941) 57 min. Night club singer Nelle Hill has many suitors -- an escaped convict, a piano player and a newspaper man. One is killed. Plus Cab Callo

Murder on Lenox Ave

1941) 65 min. Mamie Smith, Alec Lovejoy. Dramatic events in a Harlem apartment house. Pa Wilkins is chosen by the Better Business League to replace t

Juke Joint

(1947) 58 min. Spencer Williams is a con man who poses as a Hollywood acto to advance the fortunes of a small town beauty contest.

Moon over Harlem

(1939) 68 min. A girl’s mother marries a philanderer, who then pursues the daughter. When caught, the mother throws her out into the world of Broad

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