Ossie Davis Movies

  • 2003
    The Evolution of an American Filmmaker

    The Evolution of an American Filmmaker

    The Evolution of an American Filmmaker

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    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...

    The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
  • 1981
    Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy

    Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige

    Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige

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    The story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige, the legendary pitcher, from his barnstorming days in the 1920s, hoping to break into organized "negro" baseball,...

    Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy
  • 1998
    Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood

    Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood

    Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood

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    Louis Gossett Jr. takes viewers through a special documentary celebration of the groundbreaking achievements of African-American performers and their...

    Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood
  • 1977
    Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid

    Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid

    Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid

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    A young ghetto kid despairs of ever getting out of that environment and making something of himself, until one day he gets a job as an assistant in a...

    Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid
  • 1999
    A Vow to Cherish

    A Vow to Cherish

    A Vow to Cherish

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    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 Vow to Cherish
  • 2000
    Finding Buck McHenry

    Finding Buck McHenry

    Finding Buck McHenry

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    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...

    Finding Buck McHenry
  • 1980
    All God's Children

    All God's Children

    All God's Children

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    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...

    All God's Children
  • 1999
    The Unfinished Journey

    The Unfinished Journey

    The Unfinished Journey

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    A short about American life and history produced for the millennium New Year's Eve celebration.

    The Unfinished Journey
  • 1976
    The Tenth Level

    The Tenth Level

    The Tenth Level

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

    The Tenth Level
  • 1963
    Gone Are the Days!

    Gone Are the Days!

    Gone Are the Days!

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    A young, idealistic man returns home to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. With him, he brings his fiance, Lutiebelle, in hopes of...

    Gone Are the Days!
  • 2024
    Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch

    Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch

    Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch

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    The comedic play tells the story of a Black preacher’s scheme to reclaim his inheritance and win back his church from a plantation owner.

    Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch
  • 1994
    The Stand

    The Stand

    The Stand

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    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 the...

    The Stand
  • 1990
    The Red Shoes

    The Red Shoes

    The Red Shoes

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

    The Red Shoes
  • 1969
    Slaves

    Slaves

    Slaves

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

    Slaves
  • 2004
    Beah: A Black Woman Speaks

    Beah: A Black Woman Speaks

    Beah: A Black Woman Speaks

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    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...

    Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
  • 1999
    Trans-Siberian Orchestra: The Ghosts of Christmas Eve

    Trans-Siberian Orchestra: The Ghosts of Christmas Eve

    Trans-Siberian Orchestra: The Ghosts of Christmas Eve

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    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...

    Trans-Siberian Orchestra: The Ghosts of Christmas Eve
  • 1973
    Gordon's War

    Gordon's War

    Gordon's War

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    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....

    Gordon's War
  • 1999
    Paul Robeson: Here I Stand

    Paul Robeson: Here I Stand

    Paul Robeson: Here I Stand

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

    Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
  • 1960
    John Brown's Raid

    John Brown's Raid

    John Brown's Raid

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    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,...

    John Brown's Raid
  • 1979
    Freedom Man

    Freedom Man

    Freedom Man

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

    Freedom Man