Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking

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"This film does what all good documentaries do, namely make you interested enough in the subject so that you want to go off and do some research of your own. In this case, that means watching the guy's movies, especially the silent ones where the actors seem less stiff and wooden than in the talkies which are plagued, like many early sound films, by too loud and declamatory readings of dialogue. My only criticism, and it is a fairly major one, is that there is alarmingly little about Micheaux's personal life or personality beyond the fact that he was persistent, energetic and embitte..."