Ossie Davis Movies

Based on Davis' 1961 play Purlie Victorious (which was later translated into the 1963 film Gone Are the Days! and which included all of the original...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

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

Spike Lee's filmmaking career is examined in this partial making-of for the film 25th Hour (2002). Interviews with cast members from this film and...

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

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...

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

Enchanting holiday tale of a young runaway who has broken into an old movie palace, looking for shelter on a snow-filled Christmas Eve. Closed for...

The true story of the only African-American crew to take a Navy warship into combat in World War II.

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

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...

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...