Josephine Baker

Madness Remixed (2021)

Madness Remixed explores the image of exoticism portrayed by Josephine Baker in a 1926 performance entitled The Madness of the Day in which Baker wore the infamous skirt, made of only bananas, that played into stereotypes of Black women as hyper-sexualised ...

Josephine Baker, la fleur au fusil (2021)

Josephine Baker, heedless of danger - The extraordinary destiny of Josephine Baker. From her native Missouri to Paris, the artist succeeded in making her name as the queen of music hall. But Josephine Baker was also a fighter, with the French Resistance du ...

Modeles Noirs, Regards Blancs (2020)

Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening (2018)

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 "The Rainbow Tribe", adopting twelve children from four corners of the world? This is the fabulous story of ...

Do I Look Like a Lady? (Comedians and Singers) (2016)

Do I Look Like a Lady? (Comedians and Singers) presents a dynamic checkerboard of moving image footage featuring African-American actors and singers from across the 20th century: from Jackie "Moms" Mabley to Eartha Kitt, Whoopi Goldberg, Whitney Houston, a ...

Jornal Português (1938-1951) (2015)

The newsreel series Jornal Português (1938-1951) was produced for the Secretariat of National Propaganda (SPN/SNI) by the "Portuguese Newsreel Society" (SPAC), under the technical supervision of António Lopes Ribeiro. It was conceived and employed as par ...

Paris: The Luminous Years (2010)

A storm of Modernism swept through the art worlds of the West in the early decades of the twentieth century, uprooting centuries of tradition. The epicenter of this storm was Paris, France. For an incandescent moment from 1905 to 1930, Paris was the magnet ...

Joséphine Baker en couleur (2005)

Striptease: The Greatest Exotic Dancers of All Time (2004)

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 golden age of Burlesque. ...

It's Black Entertainment (2002)

A star-studded tribute (from the creators of That's Entertainment) to the contributions of Afro-Americans in film over the last century. Vanessa Williams traces the struggles and triumphs of the superstars of music and film. Among the many artists featured ...

Intimate Portrait: Josephine Baker (1999)

From world-renowned performer of the Jazz Age, to WWII spy, to civil rights activist – a look into the iconic life and legacy of Josephine Baker, narrated by Arsenio Hall, including rare archive footage, and interviews with Debbie Allen, Lynn Whitfield ( ...

Hitler's Forgotten Victims (1997)

The story of black and mixed race people in Nazi Germany who were sterilised, experimented upon, tortured and exterminated in the Nazi concentration camps. It also explores the history of German racism and examines the treatment of Black prisoners-of-war. ...

Paris Was a Woman (1996)

Women (many of them lesbian) artists, writers, photographers, designers, and adventurers settled in Paris between the wars. They embraced France, some developed an ex-pat culture, and most cherished a way of life quite different than the one left behind. ...

Chasing a Rainbow: The Life of Josephine Baker (1987)

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 conclusion, and black girls in search of a role-model tend to look elsewhere. Part of her appeal is her startlingl ...

Black Shadows on a Silver Screen (1975)

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

Variety carousel (1955)

A painter gives his daughter a television set for her 18th birthday. ...

Ten on Every Finger (1954)

"Ten on Every Finger" (German: "An jedem Finger zehn") is a 1954 West German musical comedy film directed by Erik Ode. The story centers on a revue dancer named Margit Rameau, played by Germaine Damar, who falls in love with composer Bert Martin, portrayed ...

Moulin Rouge (1940)

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. ...

The French Way (1940)

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

Princess Tam Tam (1935)

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

Zouzou (1934)

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

Le Petite Tonkinoise (2001)

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