“Black Film As Genr” in “Black Film As Genre”
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
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