Oscar Micheaux on DVD

[King Prendergast]

Where is the best place to start to get a Micheaux primer on video. I have the Criterion Robeson set, but I want to get more in-depth into Micheaux studies.

[Saturnome]

I know there's Within Our Gate in the Library of Congress' "Origin of film" set, "African American Cinema I" DVD. Doesn't help much though...

[Jonathan S]

I believe The Origins of Film set is now deleted.

Grapevine have three of his films available including the silent (Within Our Gates) which is on the Origins set.

Note these will be DVD-Rs and Grapevine's quality is very variable. I haven't seen these particular releases but, given the rarity of Micheaux's films, these will probably be fair to poor.