Josephine Baker Movies

A storm of Modernism swept through the art worlds of the West in the early decades of the twentieth century, uprooting centuries of tradition. The epi...

After a lengthy period of watching the dancers at the Folies Bergères, a fireman stops in for a drink. As he becomes intoxicated, his thoughts return...

A French novelist passes off an African shepherdess as a princess.

A painter gives his daughter a television set for her 18th birthday. On the evening of the party, the family sits in the living room and watches a ser...

The story of Josephine Baker takes us on a fascinating tour of 20th-century race relations on both sides of the Atlantic, yet it leads to no conclusio...

Zou Zou tries to help her childhood friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murder.

Gabrielle (Helene Hallier),an ambitious but innocent would-be young chorine, trumps a music hall publicity stunt to become the new Parisian nightclub...

Marquis Sévéro, a rich, lazy Parisian, wants to divorce his wife so that he can marry his own goddaughter Denise. But Denise herself loves André Berva...

Cabaret star Zazu intervenes when young lovers are sundered by their parents' feud.

The perfect body as an object of cult worship. Based on the mass sports and body worship movement of the 1920s, the film propagates physical training...

The newsreel series Jornal Português (1938-1951) was produced for the Secretariat of National Propaganda (SPN/SNI) by the "Portuguese Newsreel Society...

How did a poor little black girl from Missouri become the Queen of Paris, before joining the French Resistance and finally creating her dream family “...

A star-studded tribute (from the creators of That's Entertainment) to the contributions of Afro-Americans in film over the last century. Vanessa Willi...

Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.

Do I Look Like a Lady? (Comedians and Singers) presents a dynamic checkerboard of moving image footage featuring African-American actors and singers f...

This is a Folies Bergère show with Josephine Baker in the spotlight.

Performances of the greatest exotic dancers are collected here for the first time, from Little Egypt in 1893 to the great striptease headliners of the...