Ossie Davis Movies

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

Ray investigates the murder of a judge.

A rape case opens racial divisions in a small town. A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate allegations that a wealthy white businessman...

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

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

Jason Ross is an 11-year-old boy whose love for baseball exceeds his talent for the game. When cut from his little league team, Jason's undefeatable...

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...

A profile of the life of actor Walter Matthau.

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

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...

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

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

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,...

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

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

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...

Ossie Davis, Terry McMillan, Horace Julian Bond, Isaac Hayes, Dionne Warwick and many others share their inspiring stories of success in the first...

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

An American musician working in Nigeria becomes involved with a patriot hunted by a mercenary in Africa.

The story of Benjamin Banneker, the early American patriot whose achievements rival those of Benjamin Franklin!! Risking his life, working with the...