Pioneers of African-American Cinema

Painstakingly researched--and restored--this remarkable crowd-funded effort offers up the most comprehensive and representative collection of African-American filmmaking from the teens through the ‘40s. Directors like Oscar Micheaux, Spenser Williams, James and Eloyce Gist, and Richard Norman, and performers like Paul Robeson, Herb Jeffries, Ethel Moses, and Francine Everette, are spotlighted in over a dozen complete features, as well as shorts and fragments of films thought completely lost. 16 hrs. total on five discs. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; featurettes.