Spencer Williams Movies

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

During World War II, a young African American is forced to continue his family’s tradition of military service when he's drafted into the Army....

A one-reel comedy short in which a rivalry between two men is played out in a high-stakes game of mini golf.

Musical film with an all-black cast.

Privacy Robson is a downtrodden husband who takes advice from his friend Florian Slappey. He eventually gets the upper hand after starting divorce...

Bad News Johnson, a con artist from Memphis, Tennessee, arrives in Dallas, Texas, accompanied by his dim sidekick July Jones with only twenty-five...

The history of the television version of "Amos 'n Andy" and the public outcry to cancel it.

A cowboy is wrongfully accused of murder. He winds up in Harlem, where he assumes the identity of a preacher-turned-gangster who looks like him. He...

A filmed variety show featuring the Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra with special guests.

A cowboy helps a pretty young woman find lost gold. Restored by the Academy Film Archive with additional funding from the National Endowment for the...

Housewife Martha dies after her husband Razz's shotgun inadvertently discharges. The congregation gathers at her bedside to pray for her recovery,...

The owner of a juke joint arranges to frame an innocent preacher with a scandalous photograph, but his scheme backfires when his own adoptive mother...

A wandering cowboy and his sidekick try to resolve a murder.

After losing their parents in a flood at a young age, two brothers grow up to become a police officer and a lawyer, working alongside a local...

US Navy produced short stars Joel Fluellen as a draftee from his civilian job at a black newspaper through boot camp and an assignment in the...

Johnny Fraser leaves his mother in their small home town and sets out for the big city. He obtains a job with a large firm of architects. Steve...

A newlywed couple is visited by a strange old woman who harbors a secret about the young girl's father.

Daisy Mae Walker is an aspiring singer from a small town in Texas, who comes to a Big City to pursue a show business career. A kindly cab driver and...

An uncle discusses the life of Martin de Porres with his niece. de Porres was a late sixteenth-century Peruvian who was elevated to sainthood in 1962...

Film by Spencer Williams.