Ossie Davis Movies

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...

This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such...

Narrated by actress Alfre Woodard, this trenchant, eye-opening doc traces the radical civil rights leader’s life from his tumultuous childhood,...

An aspiring dancer and her two wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.

A documentary film about the Afro-American Woodstock concert held in Los Angeles seven years after the Watts riots. Director Mel Stuart mixes footage...

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

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...

This film is the true story of Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Jackson, Mississippi to direct the regional headquarters of...

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...

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

After a deadly plague kills most of the world's population, the remaining survivors split into two groups - one led by a benevolent elder and the...

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

A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.

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....

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

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...

Ray investigates the murder of a psychiatrist.

Big city judge Parke Denison is involved in a forced busing dispute at the climax of his long career. The friendship between two families -- one...

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

Ray investigates the murder of a judge.