OSCAR MICHEAUX: The Complete Collection
Release Date: February 11th, 2025
In this unprecedented undertaking, Kino Classics, in cooperation with the Library of Congress and several international film archives, pays homage to one of cinema’s most historically important artists: Oscar Micheaux (1884-1951).
Oscar Micheaux: The Complete Collection will be released on Blu-ray February 11, 2025, with a SRP of $89.95. Bonus features include introductions by series curator Rhea L. Combs, printed booklet of film notes, theatrical trailers for select films, and the 2024 theatrical re-release trailer.
Operating on shoestring budgets completely outside the studio system, Micheaux explored the Black experience with nuance and depth, often challenging the negative stereotypes so commonly portrayed in films of the era.
This five-disc collection showcases the director’s entire surviving body of work, including seven new restorations: Within Our Gates, The Symbol of the Unconquered, Body and Soul, God’s Step Children, Veiled Aristocrats, Murder in Harlem, and The Notorious Elinor Lee. It also showcases Micheaux’s rarely seen genre films, such as Lying Lips, Underworld, and Swing! from the best surviving film elements. Trailers for Temptation and Harlem After Midnight offer tantalizing glimpses of Micheaux talkies that, like so much of the director’s work, no longer survive.
Presented in cooperation with the Library of Congress, which preserved most of the films in this collection, Oscar Micheaux: The Complete Collectionalso showcases films preserved by George Eastman Museum, UCLA Film & Television Archive, Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the G. William Jones Film Collection of SMU Libraries, and Museum of Modern Art.
Bad Habit Online 