Ossie Davis Movies

Join tennis greats John McEnroe and Billie Jean King and world leader Nelson Mandela as they pay homage to the life and work of Arthur Ashe, the sport...

A short documentary about the making of Spike Lee's biopic, "Malcolm X."

An interview/overview on the influential careers of Gordon Parks, Ossie Davis, and Melvin Van Peebles.

Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.

Karen Garrett, a promising young doctor, is assigned to perform a difficult operation on Teach, an advanced android who has never "blanked" (had his m...

An American musician working in Nigeria becomes involved with a patriot hunted by a mercenary in Africa.

Inspired by a true story, this drama is set in 1965, not long after passage of the Civil Rights Act. Despite the Act, the African-American citizens of...

An intimate and revealing look at the world-changing musician, presented through a lens of archival footage and never-before-heard home recordings and...

A documentary, combining archival material and live interviews with Marcus Garvey, Jr., and others, which introduces the life and work of the pioneer...

A Kentucky slave fights for his freedom from cruel overseer whose mistress eventually joins Davis and the other slaves in their revolt.

A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of...

Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder.

A documentary look at the confluence of the Red scare, McCarthyism, and blacklists with the post-war activism by African Americans seeking more and be...

Darren McGavin is David Ross, a private investigator playing a game of follow the money. A simple case of embezzling turns bad quickly when bodies sta...

On September 15, 1963, a bomb destroyed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls who were there for Sunday school. It was a cri...

James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources.

"The Fall" depicts certain scenes in New York City between October 1967 and March 1968, shot by the independent filmmaker, Peter Whitehead. It is a ve...

Promotional film depicting the production and Cannes premiere of the Sidney Lumet film "The Hill."

Promotional film depicting the production and Cannes premiere of the Sidney Lumet film "The Hill."

The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing.