Josephine Baker Movies

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

The story of black and mixed race people in Nazi Germany who were sterilised, experimented upon, tortured and exterminated in the Nazi concentration...

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

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

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 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...

Experimental queer short film, showing people dancing to the song "La Petite Tonkinoise".

A poor wretch, who has just been hired as a music-hall artist, in spite of himself becomes the tenant of a particular Parisian building.

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

Josephine Baker, heedless of danger - The extraordinary destiny of Josephine Baker. From her native Missouri to Paris, the artist succeeded in making...

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...