Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening
Top 10 Billed Cast
Self (archive footage)
Narrator (voice)
Josephine Baker (voice)
Self (voice)
Self (archive footage)
All 1 videos
Joséphine Baker, première icône noire - Trailer
Similar Movies
Susanne Bartsch: On Top(en)
Dubbed New York's "Queen of the Night," proto–club kid Susanne Bartsch has been throwing unforgettable parties for over 30 years and is still going strong.
Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive(en)
How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery.
Love & Mercy(en)
In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to lose his grip on reality. By the 1980s, under the sway of a controlling therapist, he finds a savior in Melinda Ledbetter.
Tears of Cem Karaca(tr)
Against a backdrop of political unrest in Turkey, this biopic charts the life of Anatolian rock singer Cem Karaca, focusing on his revolutionary ideals. Heightened emotions and moments of threat reflect the country's rising tensions.
Slash: Raised On the Sunset Strip(en)
A Directv and Guitar Center documentary highlighting the iconic rock guitarist, Slash. Featuring interviews with Dave Grohl, Joe Perry, Alice Cooper, Duff Mckagan, Nikki Sixx, and many more...
Bethune(en)
A film biography of Dr. Norman Bethune, the Canadian doctor who served with the loyalists during the Spanish Civil War and with the North Chinese Army during the Sino-Japanese War. In Spain he pioneered the world's first mobile blood-transfusion service; in China his work behind battle lines to save the wounded has made him a legendary figure. This hour-long documentary film pieces together his remarkable career.
Goodbye Darling, I'm Off to Fight(it)
Go Figure(en)
Two-time Olympian and World Champion, the legendary Randy Gardner, explores his true identity through figure skating and his one man show. With his skating partner of over fifty years, Tai Babilonia, the pair experienced the heights of worldwide glory and devastating personal tragedy. Now that the intense glare of the public spotlight softens, he is free to finally reveal his untold magical and meaningful journey... on and off the ice.
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere(en)
Bruce Springsteen, a young musician on the cusp of global superstardom, struggles to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past.
Mi Vida Me Pasa(es)
Arturo Urbiola, independent singer/songwriter, talks about the influence music has had on his life, it's impact, and what's in store for his artistic career after becoming a father.
Utan tvivel är man inte klok(sv)
A Documentary about the Swedish Comedian Tage Danielsson. He was one member of the "Hasse & Tage" duo, the other beeing Hasse Alfredsson. He was also a writer and an Actor.
Appointment in Tokyo(en)
Produced by the Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps, with the cooperation of the Army Air Forces and the United States Navy, and released by Warner Bros. for the War Activities Committee shortly after the surrender of Japan. Follow General Douglas MacArthur and his men from their exile from the Philippines in early 1942, through the signing of the instrument of surrender on the USS Missouri on September 1, 1945. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
Cult People(en)
In interviews, various actors and directors discuss their careers and their involvement in the making of what has come to be known as "cult" films. Included are such well-known genre figures as Russ Meyer, Curtis Harrington, Cameron Mitchell and James Karen.
Pandora Peaks(en)
A dialogue-free documentary on former magazine model Pandora Peaks, with narration by Peaks and Meyer.
Unraveled: The Kaitlyn Howard Story(en)
A deep dive into the creative mind of University of South Carolina student fashion designer, Kaitlyn Howard.
Recommendations Movies
Les Frères Morozov, Mécènes et collectionneurs(fr)
Mixing history, romanticism and passion for the arts, this film tells the saga of the Morozov brothers, Russian textile industrialists. Mikhail and Ivan Morozov assembled one of the most remarkable collections of French art in the world.
PorNO(uk)
Max films his friends having lecherous fun at his own birthday party; unaware of how it will change his life. Just out of high school, by haphazard, he becomes a big porno producer. His father, a principled police major, chases porno makers, not suspecting that one of them lives in his own apartment. Hoodlums and girls from good families, corrupted policemen, petty dealers find themselves in a luring and scary world of porno.
Wrooklyn Zoo(pl)
Eighteen-year-old Kosa is the best skater in Wrocław. He has a beautiful girlfriend, great friends, an adored grandfather and a clear plan for the future - he wants to win a prestigious skateboarding competition with a lot of money at stake and a trip to Los Angeles. Everything changes dramatically when, during a carefree vacation, Kosa meets Zora - a magnetic Romani girl, with whom magic and a passionate feeling that he has never experienced before enters the boy's life.
Darling(te)
Prabha prepares to meet Nandini, his childhood friend, at a reunion party organised by his father. However, things take a turn when Nisha, a gangster's daughter, falls in love with him.
Easy Sex(en)
Packard Schmidt is a burnt-out, middle-aged college English professor. In a desperate attempt to restore some sense of vitality to his lonely existence he embarks on a series of impulsive romantic exploits resulting in a cavalcade of disaster both personally and professionally. These disasters change and educate Pack and serve eventually as a meditation on the meaning and power of desire, loss, and love.
Gunpowder(ru)
At the end of September 1941, Soviet artillery troops in besieged Leningrad realize that pretty soon they will fire their last shot, and after that the defense of the city will be doomed. The film is based on a true event: a small group of fearless soldiers transported a large supply of gunpowder through enemy lines to Leningrad.
Songs Overheard in the Shadows(en)
Balanced on the edge of what is visible, everything comes from nothingness and returns to nothingness. Strands of consciousness trying to convene with each other. Forms of personal significance in a time of crisis, set free into random motion through chance operations. Recurring details point towards a center.
Main Krishna Hoon(hi)
In answer to an orphan boy's prayers, the divine Lord Krishna comes to Earth, befriends the boy, and helps him find a loving family.
The Skirtchaser(el)
Paschalis Zoumpoulos, an otherwise decent family man and director of the house Frabalas & Co. belonging to his wife Corinna, is an incorrigible skirtchaser. His assistant Aristos covers as it can, but someday found himself in the dock because Paschalis stung a woman in the street. In court, where he ordered course a poor but clean-cut girl is in dire need of money, and that the way of obliging Paschalis to hire her as a secretary. When Paschalis flirting Alki, she immediately leaves her job and Aristos, resigns.
Firelight(en)
Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.
I'll Be Next Door for Christmas(en)
A comedy about a family that's crazy for Christmas. Except for the 16-year-old daughter -- her family's over-the-top Christmas celebrations have made her life miserable. When her long distance boyfriend decides to visit for the holidays, she's determined to spare him her family's Christmas obsession, so she hires actors to play her parents and stages a fake Christmas dinner in the empty house next door. What could go wrong?
Hutzul Land(en)
“HUTZULSHCHYNA” produced by Kalyna Film Company in 1938, was brought from Western Ukraine by Mykola Novak, in order to acquaint the people with the life of the Ukrainian mountaineer. Hutzulshchyna is now divided by two Governments, part is occupied by Poland and another part is occupied by the Hungarian Government. The Hutzuls have lived through a very tragic episode in their struggle to regain their freedom from Poland, and recently from March 13 to March 30, 1939, thousands of Hutzuls were killed by the Hungarian Army in their fight for freedom.
No Running in the Halls(en)
In a humorless corporate world ruled by a strict boss who bans all forms of joy, a group of rebellious employees create a secret haven for fun and connection through underground card games. The stakes drastically rise when their secret gets suddenly brought into the light.
Film for a Daughter(en)
On the last night in her family home, a young woman is stirred by a dream of her childhood. Reflecting on her youth and her mother’s influence, she writes a heartfelt letter to the daughter she dreams of one day having.
Habi, The Foreigner(en)
Analía’s mother sends her to Buenos Aires to deliver some handicrafts. She is expected to return home quickly to the country town where she is to take on her family’s hairdressing salon. But by chance an address mix-up leads her to a Muslim community where she finds herself taking part in a ritual completely unknown to her. Enthralled by the new world she has entered, Analía decides on the spur of the moment to take on another identity.