half-forgotten yet indomitable African-American film pioneer Oscar Micheaux. At a time when blacks lived severely restricted lives in Jim Crow America (Micheaux died broke in 1951 at age 67), this ...

Oscar Micheaux Film Pioneer is one of seven films in the Were You There series produced by Carol Lawrence the others include The Black West The Cotton Club The Facts of Life Portrait of Two ...

The Czar of Black Hollywood is a documentary film chronicling the early life and career of African-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux (1884-1951). Oscar Micheaux was America's preeminent black ...

As we celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and look ahead to Black History Month in February, we are ...

...Of Black Filmmaking. A look at the extraordinary achievements and contemporary legacy of Oscar Micheaux, a pioneer of the African-American film industry. We’re ...

At a time when blacks lived severely restricted lives in Jim Crow America, the ambitious Micheaux managed, against incredible odds, to pump out up to four features a year between 1919 and 1940, ...