Black built: history and architecture in the black community

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poster Comic Encounter in the Djurgården
Comic Encounter in the Djurgården
1mn - Comedy
This is the first film ever filmed in Stockholm, Sweden. The part of the city featured is Djurgården (Tiergarten in German). It is where the unique outdoor museum Skansen is located.
poster The Slave Market
The Slave Market
3mn - Adventure
In front of a round tent, a pasha is sitting on the grass; to the right of the tent's door, covered with a patterned blanket, is a flagpole - on top of which is an 8-pointed star [Saturn-Film's logo]. The…
poster The Black Raven
The Black Raven
(2.8/5)
61mn - Mystery
One dark and stormy night, an escaped convict, an embezzler, a runaway daughter, her intended and her father, and a gangster take refuge in a remote inn called "The Black Raven" after the nickname of a s…
poster The Diabolical Church Window
The Diabolical Church Window
7mn - Fantasy
Here we have an old scholar/alchemist brooding over a book, challenged by the devil, and going through the familiar sorcery to create a woman by throwing pieces of clothing against a stain-glass church wi…
poster Workers Repairing a Sidewalk with Bitumen
Workers Repairing a Sidewalk with Bitumen
(2.8/5)
1mn - Documentary
Workmen fix a walkway with bitumen.
poster An American in the Making
An American in the Making
15mn -
An Immigrant has come to the United States and is sponsored by a relative. He takes him to find employment and show him how the American work is protected by showing different types of safety equipment.
poster The Death Mask
The Death Mask
20mn -
A Native American warrior travels to a faraway tribe to find and defend a woman that haunts his dreams.
poster In the Barber Shop
In the Barber Shop
3mn - Comedy
One fine day at a barbershop that has stupid staff and very rude customers.
poster Panorama of Calcutta
Panorama of Calcutta
(2.7/5)
2mn - Documentary
One of the earliest films to be shot in India apparently shows the Calcutta ghats - or does it?
poster Band Drill
Band Drill
1mn - Documentary
A scene from Charles Hoyt's 'A Milk White Flag': A brass band marches out, led by bandmaster Steele Ayers. When Ayers reaches his position, he turns around and directs the musicians as they take up their …
poster The Genius of Josiah Wedgwood
The Genius of Josiah Wedgwood
59mn - Documentary
Historian A.N. Wilson embarks on a deeply personal journey to explore the extraordinary life of Josiah Wedgwood, the self-made 18th-century potter who revolutionized not just ceramics but entire industrie…
poster St. Louis Blues
St. Louis Blues
16mn - Music, Drama
In this all-black cast short, legendary blues singer Bessie Smith finds her gambler lover Jimmy messin' with a pretty, younger woman; he leaves and she sings the blues, with chorus and dancers.
poster The Blacksmith
The Blacksmith
(3.5/5)
21mn - Comedy
Buster clowns around in a blacksmith's shop until he and the smithy get in a fight which sends the smithy to jail. Buster helps several customers with horses, then destroys a Rolls Royce while fixing the …
poster East Lynne
East Lynne
(3.0/5)
74mn - Drama
An adaptation of the 1861 novel by English author Ellen Wood: The story of long-suffering Lady Isabel Carlisle cast in a modern setting.
poster Out of the Way!
Out of the Way!
(3.1/5)
61mn - Comedy
When the communists decide to renovate the city and try to demolish a badly positioned church, the religious citizens decide to fight for what is holy to them.
poster Modern Sculptors
Modern Sculptors
5mn - Animation, Fantasy
The first scene presents before the astonished eyes of the spectators a solid piece of marble, which the minute it is placed on a table seems to take life, and one can follow a snake-like line branding on…
poster In the Land of the Head Hunters
In the Land of the Head Hunters
(2.9/5)
65mn - Drama
In the Land of the Head Hunters is a 1914 silent film fictionalizing the world of the Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) peoples of the Queen Charlotte Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada…
poster The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi
The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi
(3.4/5)
127mn - Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Ayan, Maharajah of Eschnapur, believes that his wife, Princess Savitri, has been unfaithful to him with officer Mac Allan. He decides to bury her alive, so he sends the Yogi Ramigani to England to look fo…
poster If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
(3.6/5)
85mn - Documentary, Crime, History
Filmmaker Marshall Curry explores the inner workings of the Earth Liberation Front, a revolutionary movement devoted to crippling facilities involved in deforestation, while simultaneously offering a prof…
poster Roommates
Roommates
(3.4/5)
100mn - Drama, Short
The story of a macho straight and a well-educated gay man who have to share an apartment at a half-way house for aids-patients. Slowly they become friends.
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