Ossie Davis Movies

  • 1969
    Night Gallery

    Night Gallery

    Night Gallery

    7.11969HD

    This anthology telefilm aired on NBC on November 8, 1969, and tells three strange tales: "The Cemetery," directed by Boris Sagal; "Eyes," directed by...

    Night Gallery
  • 1996
    Get on the Bus

    Get on the Bus

    Get on the Bus

    6.51996HD

    Several Black men take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in 1995. On the bus are an eclectic set of...

    Get on the Bus
  • 2003
    Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

    Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

    Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

    5.92003HD

    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...

    Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
  • 1950
    No Way Out

    No Way Out

    No Way Out

    6.9111950HD

    Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder.

    No Way Out
  • 1951
    Fourteen Hours

    Fourteen Hours

    Fourteen Hours

    7.21951HD

    A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of...

    Fourteen Hours
  • 1994
    Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice

    Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice

    Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice

    01994HD

    Ray investigates the murder of a psychiatrist.

    Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice
  • 1996
    I'm Not Rappaport

    I'm Not Rappaport

    I'm Not Rappaport

    5.61996HD

    Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still...

    I'm Not Rappaport
  • 1997
    Miss Evers' Boys

    Miss Evers' Boys

    Miss Evers' Boys

    6.31997HD

    The true story of the US Government's 1932 Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiments, in which a group of black test subjects were allowed to die, despite a...

    Miss Evers' Boys
  • 2003
    Deacons for Defense

    Deacons for Defense

    Deacons for Defense

    6.12003HD

    Inspired by a true story, this drama is set in 1965, not long after passage of the Civil Rights Act. Despite the Act, the African-American citizens...

    Deacons for Defense
  • 1993
    The Ernest Green Story

    The Ernest Green Story

    The Ernest Green Story

    6.91993HD

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

    The Ernest Green Story
  • 2002
    Bubba Ho-tep

    Bubba Ho-tep

    Bubba Ho-tep

    6.5472002HD

    Bubba Ho-tep tells the "true" story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who...

    Bubba Ho-tep
  • 2022
    Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

    Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

    Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

    6.5632022HD

    An intimate and revealing look at the world-changing musician, presented through a lens of archival footage and never-before-heard home recordings...

    Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
  • 1980
    All God's Children

    All God's Children

    All God's Children

    41980HD

    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
  • 1993
    Grumpy Old Men

    Grumpy Old Men

    Grumpy Old Men

    6.6441993HD

    For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wicked pranks. When an attractive widow moves in...

    Grumpy Old Men
  • 1969
    Sam Whiskey

    Sam Whiskey

    Sam Whiskey

    5.61969HD

    A widow hires an ex-gambler to retrieve gold bars from a sunken river boat in Colorado and discreetly return them to the Federal Mint, from where...

    Sam Whiskey
  • 1984
    The House of God

    The House of God

    The House of God

    1.51984HD

    Comedy about a couple of interns in a hospital named 'The House of God'.

    The House of God
  • 1985
    Avenging Angel

    Avenging Angel

    Avenging Angel

    5.1631985HD

    Molly Stewart, now a law student at UCLA, is determined to leave her prostitute past behind. After learning that the detective who helped save her...

    Avenging Angel
  • 1979
    Freedom Man

    Freedom Man

    Freedom Man

    01979HD

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

    Freedom Man
  • 1977
    Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid

    Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid

    Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid

    01977HD

    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
  • 1989
    Making 'Do the Right Thing'

    Making 'Do the Right Thing'

    Making 'Do the Right Thing'

    6.7141989HD

    The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing.

    Making 'Do the Right Thing'