Josephine Baker Movies

The perfect body as an object of cult worship. Based on the mass sports and body worship movement of the 1920s, the film propagates physical training...

Actor, writer, director and activist Ossie Davis narrates this look at the history of race films, those produced from the 1920s-50s catered to a...

A poor wretch, who has just been hired as a music-hall artist, in spite of himself becomes the tenant of a particular Parisian building.

Madness Remixed explores the image of exoticism portrayed by Josephine Baker in a 1926 performance entitled The Madness of the Day in which Baker...

A painter gives his daughter a television set for her 18th birthday. On the evening of the party, the family sits in the living room and watches a...

After a lengthy period of watching the dancers at the Folies Bergères, a fireman stops in for a drink. As he becomes intoxicated, his thoughts...

This is a Folies Bergère show with Josephine Baker in the spotlight.

Experimental queer short film, showing people dancing to the song "La Petite Tonkinoise".

A popular piece of archival footage originally produced by British Pathé. It captures the legendary entertainer performing live in Paris,...

The story of Josephine Baker takes us on a fascinating tour of 20th-century race relations on both sides of the Atlantic, yet it leads to no...