Ossie Davis Movies

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...

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...

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

Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.

When a police department's burglary task force is facing the possibility of being shut down because of their low conviction rate decides to try a new...

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...

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

Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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