Fredi Washington

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

A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.

In Haiti, a black female plantation owner enacts a voodoo curse, and revives zombies for revenge on a white male neighbor, who has chosen a white woman over her for marriage.

Uma viúva em dificuldades e sua filha recebem uma empregada negra e sua filha de pele clara; as duas mulheres iniciam um negócio de sucesso, mas enfrentam problemas familiares, de identidade e raciais ao longo do caminho. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)

This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity.

O inescrupuloso e ambicioso, Brutus Jones, escapa da cadeia após matar um guarda e, depois de muita luta, se encontra imperador de uma ilha no Caribe.

In this short film, musical and dance acts perform, first at a night club, then at a "rent party".

Duke Ellington plays hot jazz in a fictional story that finds him down on his luck; he tries in vain to dissuade his friend, dancer Fredi Washington, from working with heart trouble even though it means work for his band. Sure enough, she collapses on stage...

A planter's wife shoots a neighbor, but tells conflicting stories of what happened.