Ossie Davis Movies

The Black middle class, torn between white goals and Black needs, are examined by producers William Greaves and William Branch in a 90-minute NET...

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

Ray investigates the murder of a judge.

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 profile of the life of actor Walter Matthau.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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....

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