Ossie Davis Movies

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

Amid an escalating war in Iraq, rising terror levels and the threat of nuclear attack, a growing body of intellectuals, religious leaders and...

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

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand presents the life and achievements of an extraordinary man. Athlete, singer, and scholar, Robeson was also a charismatic...

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...

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,...

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

In this animated contemporary interpretation of a Hans Christian Andersen morality tale, a pair of magic slippers help two young African-American...

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

A profile of the life of actor Walter Matthau.

"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...

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

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

Hamilton Cade is an alcoholic teacher striving to put his life back together. He accepts a job tutoring an "exceptional child" only to find that...

Goin’ Back to T-Town tells the story of Greenwood, an extraordinary Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that prospered during the 1920s and 30s...

"Tyler Texas Black Film Collection" (1985) is a promotional film hosted by Ossie Davis.

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...

An African dictator (Wole Soyinka) needs to convince the former king (Rashidi Onikoyi) to legitimize his reign by offering him the ceremonial yam at...

The work of sculptor Inge Hardison is the subject of this beautiful short portrait of an artist. Hardison is perhaps best known for "Negro Giants in...

Panel discussion about the original Broadway production of Lorraine Hansbury's "A Raisin in the Sun."