Blackface Movies

Continuing where His Trust (1911) leaves off, George takes care of his deceased master's daughter after her mother's death. He sacrifices his own...

Unlike anything else you will see in this year or any other, 'The Decline of the West' is a groundbreaking social allegory that challenges its...

Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl...

Topsy, a Black slave girl who "jes' growed" is auctioned but nobody will bid. A young girl named Eva purchases Topsy for a nickel.

A newlywed tries to deal with her troubled stepchild.

The film consists of Bert Swor in black-face pretending to be a black preacher.

Shot in three days, this surreal, erotic silent short shows a native white girl teaching a futuristic African airman the Charleston dance.

A ladybird is being chased by a black-faced spider.

A simple filmed performance featuring Cantor, done up in his stage minstrel makeup, allegedly at the Ziegfeld Theatre Roof Garden, but actually...

A Confederate officer is called off to war. He leaves his wife and daughter in the care of George, his faithful Negro servant. After the officer is...

A black voodoo priestess comes out of the Louisiana swamps to take revenge on the white plantation owner she believes killed her husband. The old...

An evocative and imaginative exploration of the racial tensions in Othello and how the themes in Shakespeare's play still resonate today.

A stop-motion film from Émile Cohl with tin soldiers, children's drawings and cannibals.

Blackie helps the police rescue hostage from an escaped maniac on a killing spree.

Documentary about WWII propaganda cartoons.

Amusing cake walk of three men and two women (colored) in costume, showing the usual antics that occur in affairs of this kind.

Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles Dickens first edition at an auction.

Alkali Ike and the Wildman

The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael...

A successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing around.