Ossie Davis Movies

When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era survivors...

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

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...

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

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...

Inspired by the Stanley Milgram obedience research, this TV movie chronicles a psychology professor's study to determine why people, such as the...

In 1831, Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in the United States that resulted in the murder of local slave owners and their families, the eventual...

White abolitionist John Brown and twenty of his men attempt to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry,...

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

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...

After breaking ties with the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X became a man marked for death...and it was just a matter of time before his enemies closed...

A black soldier comes home to Harlem after a tour in Vietnam and discovers that his wife had become a heroin addict and died of an overdose....

Ray investigates the murder of a psychiatrist.

Comedy about a couple of interns in a hospital named 'The House of God'.

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

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

The night a mysterious stranger rode into the lonely prairie town of West Sage, no one realized their lives would never be the same.

Ray investigates the murder of a judge.

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 private investigator endures the rigors of an insane asylum in order to locate $1 million in stolen loot.