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 ...

In honor of Black History Month, the Paducah Film Society will present a screening of Micheaux’s “Within Our Gates,” complete with a live, in-house score, on Friday, Feb. 21, at Maiden Alley Cinema. A ...

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, ...