Movies by Nina Mae McKinney

Pinky
Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.

Sanders of the River
A British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930s rules his area strictly but justly. He struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a loyal native chief.

Mantan Messes Up
Mantan takes a job as office boy at a new TV station and gets to watch several pre-recorded musical numbers.

Manhattan Serenade
An homage to NYC in the form of a short travelogue.
Gang Smashers
An undercover police woman poses as a nighclub entertainer to catch the main man behind the racketeers going on around Harlem. Meanwhile two men are falling for her.