Black Shadows on the Silver Screen (Movie)
1975 / Director: Steven York / Avg Rating: 0 out of 10
Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.
- Home, Sweet Home (1914) (Movie) (5)
Henry B. Walthall...John Howard Payne
Lillian Gish...Payne's Sweetheart
Mae Marsh...Apple Pie Mary Smith
Miriam Cooper...The Fiancee
Walter Long...(as W.H. Long) - Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) (Movie) (5)
Lillian Gish...The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle
Mae Marsh...The Dear One (Modern Story)
Miriam Cooper...The Friendless One
Walter Long...The Musketeer of the Slums / Babylonian Warrior
Noble Johnson...Babylonian Soldier (uncredited) - The Birth of a Nation (1915) (Movie) (5)
Lillian Gish...Stoneman's Daughter Elsie
Mae Marsh...Flora Cameron
Henry B. Walthall...Col. Ben Cameron
Miriam Cooper...Margaret Cameron
Walter Long...Gus
- Tales of Manhattan (1942) (Movie) (4)
Paul Robeson...Luke
Ethel Waters...Esther
Mae Marsh...Molly (Robinson sequence)
Clarence Muse...Grandpa (Robeson sequence) - Judith of Bethulia (1914) (Movie) (3)
Henry B. Walthall...Holofernes
Mae Marsh...Naomi
Lillian Gish...The Young Mother
- The Emperor Jones (1933) (Movie) (3)
Paul Robeson...Brutus Jones
Dudley Digges...Smithers
Fredi Washington...Undine - The Little Tease (1913) (Movie) (3)
Mae Marsh...The Little Tease, as an Adult
Henry B. Walthall...The Valley Man
Lillian Gish...Girl in bandana
- A Trooper of Troop K (1917) (Movie) (2)
Noble Johnson...George Johnson...
- A Woman in the Ultimate (1913) (Movie) (2)
Lillian Gish...Verda
Henry B. Walthall...Badger Gang Member
- Bad Boy (1939) (Movie) (2)
Spencer Williams...Terry
Clarence Brooks...Terry's Friend - Belle Starr (1941) (Movie) (2)
Mae Marsh...Preacher's Wife (uncredited)
Clarence Muse...Bootblack in Saloon (uncredited)
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) (Movie) (2)
Lillian Gish...Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Noble Johnson...Crowd Member (uncredited)
- Black and Tan (1929) (Movie) (2)
Duke Ellington...Duke Ellington
Fredi Washington...Fredi - Duke's Girlfriend - Broadway Bill (1934) (Movie) (2)
Walter Connolly...J.L. Higgins
Clarence Muse...Whitey - Broken Strings (1940) (Movie) (2)
Clarence Muse...Arthur Williams
Clarence Brooks...First Doctor
- Broken Ways (1913) (Movie) (2)
Henry B. Walthall...
Henry B. Walthall...The Road Agent
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975) (Movie) (2)
Paul Robeson...(archive footage)
Ethel Waters...(archive footage)
- Brutality (1912) (Movie) (2)
Mae Marsh...
Lillian Gish...
- Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho (1934) (Movie) (2)
Cab Calloway...Cab Calloway
Fredi Washington...Train Conductor's Wife - Cabin in the Sky (1943) (Movie) (2)
Ethel Waters...Petunia Jackson
Duke Ellington...Duke Ellington
- Daphne and the Pirate (1916) (Movie) (2)
Lillian Gish...Daphne La Tour
Walter Long...Jamie d'Arcy
- Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) (Movie) (2)
Noble Johnson...Native American (uncredited)
Mae Marsh...Pioneer Woman (uncredited)
- Harlem Rides the Range (1939) (Movie) (2)
Clarence Brooks...BradleySpencer Williams...Watson
- It's Black Entertainment (2002) (Movie) (2)
Josephine Baker...Self (archive footage)
Duke Ellington...Self (archive footage) - Jazz Ball (1956) (Movie) (2)
Cab Calloway...Himself
Duke Ellington...Himself
- Man Against Woman (1932) (Movie) (2)
Walter Connolly...Mossie Ennis
Clarence Muse...Smoke Johnson
- Massacre (1934) (Movie) (2)
Dudley Digges...Elihu P. Quissenberry
Clarence Muse...Sam
- Moby Dick (1930) (Movie) (2)
Noble Johnson...Queequeg
Walter Long...Stubbs
- My Baby (1912) (Movie) (2)
Henry B. Walthall...The Husband
Lillian Gish...
- Oil and Water (1913) (Movie) (2)
Henry B. Walthall...
Lillian Gish...
- Paul Robeson: Here I Stand (1999) (Movie) (2)
Paul Robeson...Self
Ossie Davis...Self - Piano Blues (2003) (Movie) (2)
Cab Calloway...Self (archive footage)
Duke Ellington...Self (archive footage)
- Pinky (1949) (Movie) (2)
Ethel Waters...Dicey Johnson
William Lundigan...Dr. Thomas Adams - Ramona (1910) (Movie) (2)
Henry B. Walthall...Alessandro
Mae Marsh...
- Rock Island Trail (1950) (Movie) (2)
Noble Johnson...Bent Creek
Clarence Brooks...Butler
- Safe in Hell (1931) (Movie) (2)
Clarence Muse...Newcastle
Noble Johnson...Bobo
- Sanders of the River (1935) (Movie) (2)
Paul Robeson...Bosambo
Leslie Banks...Commissioner R.G. Sanders - Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist (2000) (Movie) (2)
Ossie Davis...Himself
Paul Robeson...Himself (Archival Footage)
- Show Boat (1936) (Movie) (2)
Paul Robeson...Joe
Clarence Muse...Sam
- So Near, Yet So Far (1912) (Movie) (2)
Lillian Gish...A Friend
Henry B. Walthall...In Club
- So Red the Rose (1935) (Movie) (2)
Walter Connolly...Malcolm Bedford
Clarence Muse...Cato
- Sold for Marriage (1916) (Movie) (2)
Lillian Gish...Marfa
Walter Long...Col. Gregioff
- Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942) (Movie) (2)
Dudley Digges...Pratt
Mae Marsh...Mrs. Purdy (uncredited)
- Spirit of Youth (1938) (Movie) (2)
Clarence Muse...Frankie Walburn
Clarence Brooks...Speedy
- Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists (1998) (Movie) (2)
Lillian Gish...(archive footage)
Henry B. Walthall...(archive footage)
- The Avenging Conscience: or 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' (1914) (Movie) (2)
Henry B. Walthall...The nephew
Mae Marsh...The maid
- The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913) (Movie) (2)
Mae Marsh...Sally Cameron
Lillian Gish...Melissa Harlow
- The Black King (1932) (Movie) (2)
Lorenzo Tucker...Carmichael, AttorneyBud Pollard...Judge - The Broken Wing (1923) (Movie) (2)
Miriam Cooper...Inez Villera
Walter Long...Captain Innocencio Dos Santos
- The Bronze Buckaroo (1939) (Movie) (2)
Spencer Williams...Pete
Clarence Brooks...Buck Thorne
- The Burglar’s Dilemma (1912) (Movie) (2)
Henry B. Walthall...The Householder's Weakling Brother
Lillian Gish...Birthday Wellwisher
- The Cabin in the Cotton (1932) (Movie) (2)
Henry B. Walthall...Eph Clinton
Clarence Muse...A Blind Negro
- The Escape (1914) (Movie) (2)
Walter Long...unknown
Mae Marsh...Jennie Joyce
- The Great Love (1918) (Movie) (2)
Lillian Gish...Susie Broadplains
Henry B. Walthall...Sir Roger Brighton
- The Informer (1912) (Movie) (2)
Henry B. Walthall...The False Brother
Lillian Gish...Walk on role
- The Lady and the Mouse (1913) (Movie) (2)
Lillian Gish...The First Sister
Henry B. Walthall...The First Rival
- The Life of General Villa (1914) (Movie) (2)
Mae Marsh...American lover
Walter Long...Federal Officer
- The Love Goddesses (1965) (Movie) (2)
Lillian Gish...(archive footage)
Mae Marsh...(archive footage)
- The Maltese Falcon (1931) (Movie) (2)
Dudley Digges...Casper Gutman
Walter Long...Miles Archer
- The Most Dangerous Game (1932) (Movie) (2)
Leslie Banks...Count Zaroff
Noble Johnson...Ivan
- The Mother and the Law (1919) (Movie) (2)
Mae Marsh...The Little Dear One
Miriam Cooper...The Friendly One
- The New York Hat (1912) (Movie) (2)
Mae Marsh...A Town Gossip
Lillian Gish...
- The One She Loved (1912) (Movie) (2)
Henry B. Walthall...The Husband
Lillian Gish...
- The Realization of a Negro's Ambition (1916) (Movie) (2)
Noble Johnson...
Clarence Brooks...
- The Scar of Shame (1929) (Movie) (2)
Lucia Lynn Moses...Louise HowardWilliam E. Pettus...'Spike' Howard
- The Scarlet Letter (1927) (Movie) (2)
Lillian Gish...Hester Prynne
Henry B. Walthall...Roger Prynne aka Roger Chillingworth
- The Sun Shines Bright (1953) (Movie) (2)
Clarence Muse...Uncle Zack
Mae Marsh...GAR Woman at the Ball
- The Sun... the Sand... the Hill (1965) (Movie) (2)
Ossie Davis...Jason King (archival footage)
Ossie Davis...Jason King (archive footage)
- The Wanderer (1913) (Movie) (2)
Henry B. Walthall...The Wanderer
Mae Marsh...The Other Parents' Daughter, as an Adult
- Three Friends (1913) (Movie) (2)
Henry B. Walthall...The Husband
Mae Marsh...The Wife's Friend
- Two-Gun Man from Harlem (1938) (Movie) (2)
Clarence Brooks...John BarkerSpencer Williams...Butch Carter
- Union Pacific (1939) (Movie) (2)
Noble Johnson...Native American Shooting Piano (uncredited)
Walter Long...Irishman (uncredited)
- Washington Merry-Go-Round (1932) (Movie) (2)
Walter Connolly...Senator Wylie
Clarence Muse...Clarence
