Ossie Davis Movies

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

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

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

Narrated by actress Alfre Woodard, this trenchant, eye-opening doc traces the radical civil rights leader’s life from his tumultuous childhood, throug...

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 profile of the life of actor Walter Matthau.

Bedtime Stories & Songs is a 1986 Sesame Street direct-to-video compilation, released on VHS as part of the My Sesame Street Home Video label. The vid...

The work of sculptor Inge Hardison is the subject of this beautiful short portrait of an artist. Hardison is perhaps best known for "Negro Giants in H...

Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.

An African dictator (Wole Soyinka) needs to convince the former king (Rashidi Onikoyi) to legitimize his reign by offering him the ceremonial jam at t...

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

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

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

Ray investigates the murder of a judge.

Ray investigates the murder of a psychiatrist.

When a pint-sized 8-year-old kid witnesses a murder he offers to help the police, if they make him a cop, too. Saddled with this streetwise sidekick,...

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

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