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In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar...
Porgy and Bess
A scandalous tale of politics, social inequality, interracial romance, and murder set on a fictitious British-owned Caribbean island.
Island in the Sun
When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. When...
Sun Valley Serenade
Carmen, a seductive woman, seduces a young soldier, Joe, in order to avoid imprisonment. However, when she leaves Joe for another man, he seeks...
Carmen Jones
Here's a perfect chance to compare and contrast a clutch of the greatest jazz divas in the history of the genre. "Sassy" Sarah Vaughan appears along...
Sarah Vaughan & Other Jazz Divas
In this Soundie, the Mills Brothers sing the title song to a cut-out image of Dorothy Dandridge, which then comes to life and dances for them.
Paper Doll
A girl, Carol whom the audience is quickly informed "has been around," and her father arrive to take over the business management of an island in the...
Bahama Passage
Teachers at an all-black school fight to save a problem child.
Bright Road
A Dutch slave captain, on a voyage to Cuba, faces a revolt fomented by a newly captured African slave, Tamango. The slaves capture the captain's...
Tamango
Connie Ward is in seventh heaven when Gene Morrison's band rolls into town. She is swept off her feet by trumpeter Bill Abbot. After marrying him,...
Orchestra Wives
A gold-digger hopes to land a rich husband in Trinidad, but gets mixed up with a beach boy and voodoo.
Happy Go Lucky
Russ Matthews, a theatrical agent who is not above pulling off a hoax or two or more to further the career of his clients (and himself), and a...
It Can't Last Forever
A band of dishonest seamen plans a murderous mutiny aboard the S.S. Berwind.
The Decks Ran Red
Dorothy Dandridge sings, featuring Cee Pee Johnson on tom-toms.
Swing for Your Supper
A safari sets out to find a meteorite that fell in the African jungle.
Drums of the Congo
A Soundie with Dorothy Dandridge and Four Spirits of Rhythm
Yes, Indeed!
A Soundie with Dorothy Dandridge and Billy Mitchell.
Blackbird Fantasy
A Soundie with Dorothy Dandridge and Cee Pee Johnson.
Jungle Jig
Having been coerced unto helping a criminal pull off a jewellery theft, a locksmith is double crossed by the crook and heads off to Spain with an eye...
Moment of Danger
The reclusive Patricia Douglas comes out of hiding to discuss the 1937 MGM scandal, in which the powerful film studio tricked her and over 100 other...
Girl 27
A singer and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find themselves facing danger at every turn.
Remains to Be Seen
Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie...
Lady from Louisiana
Melodrama of the attempt to smash a drug ring and to promote a former addict singer's rehabilitation. Edited from TV series, Cain's Hundred
The Murder Men
Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.
Sundown
A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.
Going Places
Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude...
Ride 'Em Cowboy
A department store has an indoor ski slide for the annual contest for store employees. Salesgirl June has two admirers - a sausage salesman in the...
Snow Gets in Your Eyes
When amateur songwriter Jill Wright moves from the Midwest to New York City, she is dismayed to discover that Rick Farrell, the owner of Miracle...
Hit Parade of 1943
In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it...
Atlantic City
Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy's farm by winning a big race with her horse. There are a few problems. Hackenbush runs a...
A Day at the Races
The life and work of Samuel Goldwyn, a Polish-born glove salesman who became one of Hollywood's greatest independent producers, is remembered in this...
Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies
Chronicling the Harlem Renaissance era, this retrospective documentary tracks the origins of the soulful music of the period, along with the...
The Harlem Renaissance
Helen Fielding, heir to the fortunes of the late millionaire Roger Fielding, Sr., has broken off her relationship with the unscrupulous Lew Covey to...
Four Shall Die
Escaped convicts are selling weapons to a warlike native tribe.
Tarzan's Peril
All-American basketball player, Billy signs up with the world-famous "Harlem Globetrotters", an all-Negro professional team. Billy struggles with...
The Harlem Globetrotters
In 1943, several people enter, re-enter, and exit the difficult life of a Midwestern family whose patriarch has been called up to war, leaving behind...
Since You Went Away
Mantan Moreland hosts a series of filmed song, dance and band numbers by various artists, mostly released previously as individual "soundies".
Ebony Parade
Upholsterer's assistant Irene O'Dare meets wealthy Don Marshall while she is measuring chairs for Mrs. Herman Vincent at her Long Island estate....
Irene
Dorothy Dandridge performing "Easy Street".
Easy Street
Hoagy Carmichael at the piano sings the title song (lyrics by Johnny Mercer). Dancing by Dorothy Dandridge and Peter Ray.
Lazybones
With a war on and most men being drafted, Howard Oil Supply Company has no salesmen left. So daughter Jean hits the road and does not make one sale....
Pillow to Post
Dorothy Dandridge and band perform "Cow-Cow Boogie".
Cow-Cow Boogie
A star-studded tribute (from the creators of That's Entertainment) to the contributions of Afro-Americans in film over the last century. Vanessa...
It's Black Entertainment
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie...
Lucky Jordan
Actor Obba Babatundé hosts this biopic showcasing the life of acclaimed African-American singer and actress Dorothy Dandridge, who overcame...
Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty
A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
Night in New Orleans
Stepin Fetchit introduces a band which plays several numbers, including "Cow Cow Boogie" and a swing version of "Rigoletto." Dorothy Dandridge...
Moo Cow Boogie
Compilation film of various African-American performers and acts.
Swingtime Jamboree
An early "soundie" in which Dorothy Dandridge & Paul White sing "A Zoot Suit with a Reet Pleat" while getting dressed up for a big date.
A Zoot Suit with a Reet Pleat
Variety stage entertainment musical short
International Revels
The gang tries to dissuade their teacher from getting married.
Teacher's Beau
Dorothy Dandridge along with CeePee Johnson and his Orchestra perform "A Jig in the Jungle."
A Jig in the Jungle