Josephine Baker Movies

Madness Remixed explores the image of exoticism portrayed by Josephine Baker in a 1926 performance entitled The Madness of the Day in which Baker wore the infamous skirt, made of only bananas, that played into stereotypes of Black women as hyper-sexualised. Madness Remixed questions the conditions...

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

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

Josephine Baker, heedless of danger - The extraordinary destiny of Josephine Baker. From her native Missouri to Paris, the artist succeeded in making her name as the queen of music hall. But Josephine Baker was also a fighter, with the French Resistance during the Second World War, and against...

Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.