Appendix B Filmography of Black Genre Films

Filmography

A Natural Born Gambler (USA, 1916) Bert Williams [?]

Body and Soul (USA, 1924) Oscar Micheaux

Ten Nights in a Bar Room (USA, 1926) Colored Players [Frank Perugini?]

Eleven P. M. (USA, 1928) Richard D. Maurice

Melancholy Dame (USA, 1928) Spencer Williams [?]

Voyage au Congo (France, 1928) Marc Allegret

Black and Tan (USA, 1929) Dudley Murphy

Borderline (Switzerland, 1929) Kenneth Macpherson

Hallelujah! (USA, 1929) King Vidor [and Harold Garrison?]

Hearts in Dixie (USA, 1929) Paul Sloane [and Clarence Muse?]

The Exile (USA, 1931 ) Oscar Micheaux

The Black King (USA, 1932) Donald Heywood

Drums o' Voodoo (USA, 1933 ) Arthur Hoerle [and J. Augustus Smith?]

The Emperor Jones (USA, 1933) Dudley Murphy

Sanders of the River (Britain, 1935) Zoltan Korda

Symphony in Black (USA, 1935) Fred Waller

Dark Manhattan (USA, 1937) George Randol

Jericho (Britain, 1937) Thornton Freeland

One Mile from Heaven (USA, 1937) Alan Dwan

Song of Freedom (Britain, 1937) J. Elder Wills

Spirit of Youth (USA, 1937) Harry Fraser

Keep Punching (USA, 1939) John Clein

Moon over Harlem (USA, 1939) Edgar G. Ulmer

Paradise in Harlem (USA, 1939) Joseph Seiden

Way Down South (USA, 1939) Bernard Vorhaus

Broken Strings (USA, 1940) Bernard B. Ray

One Tenth of Our Nation (USA, 1940) Henwar Rodakiewiecz

Proud Valley ( Britain, 1940 ) Pen Tennyson

Murder on Lennox [sic] Avenue (USA, 1941 ) Arthur Dreifuss

Henry Brown, Farmer (USA, 1942) Roger Barlow

Boogie Woogie Dream (USA, 1944) Bert and Jack Goldberg

Go Down Death (USA, 1944) Spencer Williams

Stormy Weather (USA, 1943) Andrew Stone

Reet, Petite, and Gone (USA, 1947) Bud Pollard

Man of Two Worlds (Britain, 1947) Thorold Dickinson

The Quiet One (USA, 1948) Sidney Meyers

Jim Comes to Jo¹ bur g (South Africa, 1949) Donald Swanson

Native Son (Argentina, 1951) Pierre Chenal

Bright Road (USA, 1953) Gerald Mayer

Anna Lucasta (USA, 1958) Philip Yordan

Jazz on a Summer's Day (USA, 1959) Bert Stern

The Cry of Jazz (USA, 1959) Edward Bland

Come Back Africa (USA, 1959) Lionel Rogosin

Porgy and Bess (USA, 1959) Otto Preminger

Take a Giant Step (USA, 1959) Philip Leacock

A Raisin in the Sun (USA, 1961 ) Daniel Petrie

Sunday on the River (USA, 1961 ) Gordon Hitchens and Ken Resnick

Gone are the Days (USA, 1963 ) Nicholas Webster

Lilies of the Field (USA, 1963 ) Ralph Nelson

The Cool World (USA, 1963) Shirley Clarke

Dutchman (USA, Britain, 1967) Anthony Harvey

Sweet Love Bitter (USA, 1967) Herbert Danska

For Love of Ivy (USA, 1968) Daniel Mann

Up Tight (USA, 1968) Jules Dassin

Still a Brother (USA, 1968) William Greaves and William Branch

The Learning Tree (USA, 1968) Gordon Parks

No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger (USA, 1968) David Loeb Weiss

Putney Swope (USA, 1969) Robert Downey

Onkel Tom's Hutte (Yugoslav-German, 1969) Gerza Radvanyi

The Great White Hope (USA, 1969) Martin Ritt

Slaves (USA, 1969) Herbert J. Biberman

Watermelon Man (USA, 1970) Melvin Van Peebles

Cotton Comes to Harlem (USA, 1970) Ossie Davis

Eldridge Cleaver {France, 1970) William Klein

Kongi's Harvest (Nigeria, 1970) Ossie Davis

Martin Luther King: A Filmed Record (USA, 1970) Ely Landau

Shaft (USA, 1970) Gordon Parks

The Murder of Fred Hampton (USA, 1971 ) Mike Grey

Right On! (USA, 1971 ) Herbert Danska

Soul to Soul (USA, 1971 ) Denis Sanders

The Bus is Coming (USA, 1971 ) Wendell Franklin

Melinda (USA, 1971 ) Hugh Robertson

Black Girl (USA, 1972) Ossie Davis

Blood's Way (USA, 1972) Stan Taylor

The Book of Numbers (USA, 1972) Raymond St. Jacques

Come Back Charleston Blue (USA, 1972) Mark Warren

Malcolm X (USA, 1972) Arnold Perl and Martin Worth

Five on the Black Hand Side (USA, 1973) Oscar Williams

Ganja and Hess (USA, 1973) Bill Gunn

The Harder They Come (Jamaica, 1973 ) Perry Henzel

Harlem : Voices, Faces (Sweden, 1973) Lars Ulvenstam and Tomas Dillen

Let the Church Say Amen (USA, 1973) St. Claire Bourne

Save the Children (USA, 1973) Stan Lathan

The Spook Who Sat by the Door (USA, 1973 ) Ivan Dixon [and Sam Greenlee]

Wattstax (USA, 1973) Mel Stuart

Willie Dynamite (USA, 1973 ) Gilbert Moses

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (USA, 1974) John Korty

American Shoeshine (USA, 1975) Sparky Greene

From These Roots (USA, 1975) William Greaves

Harvest : Year 2000 (Ethiopia, 1975) Haile Gerima

Countdown at Kusini (USA, 1975 ) Ossie Davis

Black Shadows on a Silver Screen ( USA, 1975 ) Steven York

Smile Orange (Jamaica, 1975) Trevor Rhone

Tuskegee Subject #626 (USA, 1975) Leroy McDonald

Coonskin (USA, 1976) Ralph Bakshi

The Long Night (USA, 1976) Woodie King

Passing Through (USA, 1977) Larry Clarke