Ossie Davis Movies

Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Colour, a dazzling yet damned class caught...

Follows the story of Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine who were the first blacks to integrate into an all white school.

Owen is the head administrator of an old age home in Washington. One day, a resident discovers he is cheating on his taxes, and orders that Owen...

Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.

A documentary focusing on the the events in Haiti following the coup of September 30, 1991. The program includes interviews with exiled President...

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...

Tommy Riley has moved with his dad to Chicago from a 'nice place'. He keeps to himself, goes to school. However, after a street fight he is noticed...

Widower Harry Keach is a construction worker who was raised to appreciate the importance of working for a living. He takes a dim view of his...

A profile of the life of actor Walter Matthau.

Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the...

Purlie is a musical based on Ossie Davis' 1961 play Purlie Victorious. In the early days of the civil rights movement, a Southern plantation owner...

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

A widow hires an ex-gambler to retrieve gold bars from a sunken river boat in Colorado and discreetly return them to the Federal Mint, from where...

Zachariah, makes a few mistakes and it is decided that he is to live as a human being for thirty days. Mordecai is his supervisor. Rebecca's husband...

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks is a 2003 documentary about the life of Academy Award nominated actress Beah Richards. Directed by Lisa Gay Hamilton, it...

A multimedia short created for the U.S. millennium celebrations, The Unfinished Journey reflects on America’s history and spirit through six...

John and Ellen have a picture-perfect life: while John runs a successful business, Ellen works as a schoolteacher, and they've raised two beautiful...

When a police department's burglary task force is facing the possibility of being shut down because of their low conviction rate decides to try a new...

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

The story of Benjamin Banneker, the early American patriot whose achievements rival those of Benjamin Franklin!! Risking his life, working with the...