Bayer Mack

The Czar of Black Hollywood

Bayer Mack

The Czar of Black Hollywood is a documentary film chronicling the early life and career of African-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux (1884-1951). Oscar Micheaux was America's preeminent black filmmaker for three decades, having directed or produced 22 silent movies and 15 talking pictures.The Czar of Black Hollywood uses archival film, photos, illustrations and music to weave a narrative of Micheaux's early life and his production of the first feature length silent film and the first feature length sound motion picture by an African-American.

In the Hour of Chaos

Bayer Mack

Documentary film about the life and trials of the Reverend Martin Luther King Sr. ("Daddy King"), father of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

No Lye: An American Beauty Story

Bayer Mack

Alexandria

A documentary that chronicles the rise and decline of the black-owned ethnic beauty industry in America.