Pioneers of African-American Cinema

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  • Premiered: Jul 2016
  • Episodes: 20
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  • Documentary Drama

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Season 1
1x1
Hell-Bound Train
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 26, 2016
In this parable, sinners of all kinds board a hell-bound train conducted by Satan, while others choose not to board or leave and repent.
1x2
Hot Biskits / The Blood Of Jesus
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Air date
Jul 26, 2016
A con man uses magnets to help his pal win a golf game. A godless man who accidentally shot his wife fervently prays while she dreams of redemption.
1x3
Verdict Not Guilty / Heaven-Bound Travelers
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 26, 2016
At the gates of Heaven, Truth defends an unmarried woman who died in childbirth. People fight despair and Satan's temptations on the way to heaven.
1x4
The Symbol of the unconquered: A Story of the KKK
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 26, 2016
A light-skinned black woman falls for a kind black man who thinks she's white. Both become targets of a self-loathing biracial man passing as white
1x5
Two Knights of Vaudeville / Mercy the Mummy Mumbled
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 26, 2016
Two men thrown out of a big vaudeville show put on their own show back home. To win his sweetheart, a man "helps" her scientist dad reanimate a mummy.
1x6
Birthright
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Air date
Jul 26, 2016
A Harvard-educated black man goes back to his Southern hometown to start a school, but racism and love for a local girl throw obstacles in his path.
1x7
Veiled Aristocrats
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Air date
Jul 26, 2016
When a young black man who passed for white in college returns to his hometown, he finds his light-skinned sister has fallen for a darker-skinned man.
1x8
Within Our Gates
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Air date
Jul 26, 2016
A woman victimized by a cousin who secretly loved her fiancé tries to save a school for black children, but her past and society work against her.
1x9
The Girl from Chicago
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Air date
Jul 26, 2016
After a federal agent falls for a Mississippi teacher and saves her from a crime kingpin, the pair escapes to Harlem, where safety still eludes them.
1x10
Ten Nights in a Bar Room
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Air date
Jul 26, 2016
After a mill owner loses everything to an incorrigible vice lord, he becomes a drunkard -- until fate intervenes.
1x11
The Darktown Revue
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 26, 2016
Donald Heywood's Choir performs several songs. Tim Moore and other comedians appear in sketches between songs.
1x12
The Flying Ace
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Air date
Jul 26, 2016
A former World War I flying ace becomes a railroad detective to go after a romantic rival and fellow aviator who pulls off a large payroll robbery.
1x13
Eleven P.M.
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Air date
Jul 26, 2016
A writer who believes man's psyche can take refuge in lower animal forms falls asleep while working on a story and has a bizarre dream.
1x14
Dirty Gertie from Harlem USA
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 26, 2016
A famous and very flirtatious Harlem stripper visits a tropical island, where her past and her conscience catch up with her.
1x15
A Reckless Rover
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Air date
Jul 26, 2016
A policeman tries to arrest a sleeping man in a boardinghouse, but he escapes, runs through the neighborhood, then hides in a Chinese laundry.
1x16
Body and Soul
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 26, 2016
An escaped criminal hides in a small town, posing as a pastor to steal from his congregation, work as a bootlegger and conceal his own depravity.
1x17
The Scar of Shame
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Air date
Jul 26, 2016
A young composer marries a poor girl to save her from her stepfather's advances, but society's failure to help women like her continues to haunt them.
1x18
The Bronze Buckaroo
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Air date
Jul 26, 2016
When cowboy Bob Blake learns that his friend Joe needs help, he rides to Joe's ranch but discovers he's been missing for weeks.
1x19
The Exile
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Air date
Jul 26, 2016
A black man leaves Chicago and becomes a successful farmer, but after falling for a white woman, he returns and gets entangled with an old flame.
1x20 Show finale
Ten Minutes to Live
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 26, 2016
At a Harlem nightclub, a woman receives a note saying she has only 10 minutes to live. The reason is connected to a murder from years before.

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