Películas de Ossie Davis
Estas son todas las Películas de Ossie Davis disponibles en este sitio.
- 1989
Do the Right Thing
Do the Right Thing7.759 1989 HD
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the...
- 1991
Jungle Fever
Jungle Fever6.4 1991 HD
A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference...
- 1990
Joe Versus the Volcano
Joe Versus the Volcano5.7 1990 HD
Hypochondriac Joe Banks finds out he has six months to live, quits his dead end job, musters the courage to ask his co-worker out on a date, and is...
- 1998
Doctor Dolittle
Doctor Dolittle5.691 1998 HD
A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, until a long suppressed talent he possessed as a...
- 1993
Grumpy Old Men
Grumpy Old Men6.634 1993 HD
For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wicked pranks. When an attractive widow moves in...
- 1965
The Hill
The Hill7.5 1965 HD
North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military...
- 1969
Sam Whiskey
Sam Whiskey5.519 1969 HD
Sam Whiskey is an all-round talent, but when the attractive widow Laura offers him a job, he hesitates: he shall salvage gold bars, which Laura's...
- 1968
The Scalphunters
The Scalphunters6.4 1968 HD
Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the...
- 1997
12 Angry Men
12 Angry Men7.7 1997 HD
During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the guilty verdict handed down by the others as a result...
- 2002
Bubba Ho-tep
Bubba Ho-tep6.553 2002 HD
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...
- 2004
Baadasssss!
Baadasssss!6.6 2004 HD
Director Mario Van Peebles chronicles the complicated production of his father Melvin's classic 1971 film, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song."...
- 1975
Let's Do It Again
Let's Do It Again6.7 1975 HD
Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the...
- 1996
I'm Not Rappaport
I'm Not Rappaport5.6 1996 HD
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...
- 1985
Avenging Angel
Avenging Angel5.1 1985 HD
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...
- 1996
Get on the Bus
Get on the Bus6.6 1996 HD
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...
- 1999
The Secret Path
The Secret Path6.7 1999 HD
A young girl stuck in a horrific cycle of familial violence finds the power to build her own future from the place she least suspected in an...
- 2001
Feast of All Saints
Feast of All Saints5.2 2001 HD
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...
- 1984
Harry and Son
Harry and Son6 1984 HD
Widower Harry Keach is a construction worker who was raised to appreciate the importance of working for a living. He takes a dim view of his...
- 1984
The House of God
The House of God1.5 1984 HD
Comedy about a couple of interns in a hospital named 'The House of God'.
- 1979
Hot Stuff
Hot Stuff7 1979 HD
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...
- 2000
Finding Buck McHenry
Finding Buck McHenry0 2000 HD
When an 11 year old boy gets cut from his Little League baseball team, he sets out to form his own team.
- 2005
The Peace!
The Peace!5 2005 HD
Amid an escalating war in Iraq, rising terror levels and the threat of nuclear attack, a growing body of intellectuals, religious leaders and...
- 1997
Miss Evers' Boys
Miss Evers' Boys6.3 1997 HD
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...
- 1990
The Red Shoes
The Red Shoes0 1990 HD
In this animated contemporary interpretation of a Hans Christian Andersen morality tale, a pair of magic slippers help two young African-American...
- 1977
Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid
Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid0 1977 HD
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...
- 1966
A Man Called Adam
A Man Called Adam6.3 1966 HD
A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.
- 1969
Teacher, Teacher
Teacher, Teacher0 1969 HD
Hamilton Cade is an alcoholic teacher striving to put his life back together. He accepts a job tutoring an "exceptional child" only to find that...
- 1963
Gone Are the Days!
Gone Are the Days!6.5 1963 HD
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...
- 1976
The Tenth Level
The Tenth Level5.1 1976 HD
Inspired by the Stanley Milgram obedience research, this TV movie chronicles a psychology professor's study to determine why people, such as the...
- 1968
Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class
Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class0 1968 HD
The Black middle class, torn between white goals and Black needs, are examined by producers William Greaves and William Branch in a 90-minute NET...
- 1999
The Soul Collector
The Soul Collector7.4 1999 HD
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...
- 1963
The Cardinal
The Cardinal6.5 1963 HD
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.
- 2005
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'5 2005 HD
A short documentary about the making of Spike Lee's biopic, "Malcolm X."
- 1988
School Daze
School Daze5.9 1988 HD
Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.
- 1995
The Android Affair
The Android Affair5 1995 HD
Karen Garrett, a promising young doctor, is assigned to perform a difficult operation on Teach, an advanced android who has never "blanked" (had his...
- 1976
Countdown at Kusini
Countdown at Kusini0 1976 HD
An American musician working in Nigeria becomes involved with a patriot hunted by a mercenary in Africa.
- 2003
Deacons for Defense
Deacons for Defense6.1 2003 HD
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...
- 1969
Slaves
Slaves5.7 1969 HD
A Kentucky slave fights for his freedom from cruel overseer whose mistress eventually joins Davis and the other slaves in their revolt.
- 1951
Fourteen Hours
Fourteen Hours7.1 1951 HD
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...
- 1950
No Way Out
No Way Out6.9 1950 HD
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.
- 1998
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist8 1998 HD
A documentary look at the confluence of the Red scare, McCarthyism, and blacklists with the post-war activism by African Americans seeking more and...
- 1967
The Outsider
The Outsider6 1967 HD
Darren McGavin is David Ross, a private investigator playing a game of follow the money. A simple case of embezzling turns bad quickly when bodies...
- 1997
4 Little Girls
4 Little Girls7.3 1997 HD
On September 15, 1963, a bomb destroyed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls who were there for Sunday school. It was a...
- 1972
Malcolm X
Malcolm X6.4 1972 HD
James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources.
- 1969
The Fall
The Fall7 1969 HD
"The Fall" depicts certain scenes in New York City between October 1967 and March 1968, shot by the independent filmmaker, Peter Whitehead. It is a...
- 1965
The Sun... the Sand... the Hill
The Sun... the Sand... the Hill1 1965 HD
Promotional film depicting the production and Cannes premiere of the Sidney Lumet film "The Hill."
- 1965
The Sun... the Sand... the Hill
The Sun... the Sand... the Hill1 1965 HD
Promotional film depicting the production and Cannes premiere of the Sidney Lumet film "The Hill."
- 1989
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
Making 'Do the Right Thing'6.7 1989 HD
The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing.
- 1985
Tyler Texas Black Film Collection
Tyler Texas Black Film Collection7 1985 HD
"Tyler Texas Black Film Collection" (1985) is a promotional film hosted by Ossie Davis.
- 1979
Freedom Road
Freedom Road4.8 1979 HD
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...
- 1980
All God's Children
All God's Children0 1980 HD
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...
- 1979
Freedom Man
Freedom Man0 1979 HD
The story of Benjamin Banneker, the early American patriot whose achievements rival those of Benjamin Franklin!! Risking his life, working with the...
- 2003
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks0 2003 HD
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...
- 1993
The Ernest Green Story
The Ernest Green Story6.9 1993 HD
Follows the story of Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine who were the first blacks to integrate into an all white school.
- 2000
Dinosaur
Dinosaur6.525 2000 HD
An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.
- 1992
Gladiator
Gladiator7.573 1992 HD
Tommy Riley has moved with his dad to Chicago from a 'nice place'. He keeps to himself, goes to school. However, after a street fight he is noticed...
- 1967
Black Liberation
Black Liberation0 1967 HD
Produced in collaboration with Malcolm X and narrated by Ossie Davis, this call to arms layers revolutionary text from multiple sources with gritty,...
- 2003
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property6.1 2003 HD
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...
- 1999
Trans-Siberian Orchestra: The Ghosts of Christmas Eve
Trans-Siberian Orchestra: The Ghosts of Christmas Eve9 1999 HD
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...
- 1999
A Vow to Cherish
A Vow to Cherish6.2 1999 HD
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...
- 2003
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives5.9 2003 HD
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...
- 1969
Night Gallery
Night Gallery7.1 1969 HD
This anthology telefilm aired on NBC on November 8, 1969, and tells three strange tales: "The Cemetery," directed by Boris Sagal; "Eyes," directed by...
- 1981
Death of a Prophet
Death of a Prophet4.2 1981 HD
After breaking ties with the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X became a man marked for death...and it was just a matter of time before his enemies closed...
- 1971
The Sheriff
The Sheriff6 1971 HD
A rape case opens racial divisions in a small town. A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate allegations that a wealthy white businessman...
- 2002
Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'
Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'0 2002 HD
Panel discussion about the original Broadway production of Lorraine Hansbury's "A Raisin in the Sun."
- 1994
The Client
The Client6.694 1994 HD
A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a...
- 1997
Jackie Robinson: Breaking Barriers
Jackie Robinson: Breaking Barriers10 1997 HD
Jackie Robinson: Breaking Barriers celebrates the ground-breaking career of the first-ever African-American to join the major leagues, talented...
- 1991
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker7.7 1991 HD
This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such...
- 2005
The History Makers: Success
The History Makers: Success0 2005 HD
Ossie Davis, Terry McMillan, Horace Julian Bond, Isaac Hayes, Dionne Warwick and many others share their inspiring stories of success in the first...
- 1981
Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige6 1981 HD
The story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige, the legendary pitcher, from his barnstorming days in the 1920s, hoping to break into organized "negro" baseball,...
- 1975
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen0 1975 HD
Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.
- 2004
Proud
Proud4.4 2004 HD
The true story of the only African-American crew to take a Navy warship into combat in World War II.
- 1994
Malcolm X: Make It Plain
Malcolm X: Make It Plain10 1994 HD
Narrated by actress Alfre Woodard, this trenchant, eye-opening doc traces the radical civil rights leader’s life from his tumultuous childhood,...
- 2001
The Legend of the Candy Cane
The Legend of the Candy Cane0 2001 HD
The night a mysterious stranger rode into the lonely prairie town of West Sage, no one realized their lives would never be the same.
- 1997
Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough
Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough6.5 1997 HD
A profile of the life of actor Walter Matthau.
- 1986
Sesame Street: Sleepytime Songs & Stories
Sesame Street: Sleepytime Songs & Stories0 1986 HD
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....
- 1962
Hands of Inge
Hands of Inge0 1962 HD
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...
- 2004
She Hate Me
She Hate Me5.1 2004 HD
Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.
- 1970
Kongi's Harvest
Kongi's Harvest6 1970 HD
An African dictator (Wole Soyinka) needs to convince the former king (Rashidi Onikoyi) to legitimize his reign by offering him the ceremonial jam at...
- 1964
Shock Treatment
Shock Treatment6.7 1964 HD
A private investigator endures the rigors of an insane asylum in order to locate $1 million in stolen loot.
- 1999
The Unfinished Journey
The Unfinished Journey6 1999 HD
A short about American life and history produced for the millennium New Year's Eve celebration.
- 1999
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand0 1999 HD
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand presents the life and achievements of an extraordinary man. Athlete, singer, and scholar, Robeson was also a charismatic...
- 1995
Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder
Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder0 1995 HD
Ray investigates the murder of a judge.
- 1994
Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice
Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice0 1994 HD
Ray investigates the murder of a psychiatrist.
- 1993
Cop and ½
Cop and ½4.5 1993 HD
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,...
- 1992
Lincoln
Lincoln7.2 1992 HD
Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.
- 1993
Goin' Back to T-Town
Goin' Back to T-Town0 1993 HD
Goin’ Back to T-Town tells the story of Greenwood, an extraordinary Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that prospered during the 1920s and 30s...
- 2001
Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore
Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore0 2001 HD
From the Peabody and Emmy Award-winning PBS series NEIGHBORHOODS: THE HIDDEN CITIES OF SAN FRANCISCO comes the remarkable story of San Francisco's...
- 1992
Malcolm X
Malcolm X7.5 1992 HD
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he...
- 1994
Arthur Ashe: Citizen of the World
Arthur Ashe: Citizen of the World0 1994 HD
Join tennis greats John McEnroe and Billie Jean King and world leader Nelson Mandela as they pay homage to the life and work of Arthur Ashe, the...
- 2005
Unstoppable
Unstoppable0 2005 HD
An interview/overview on the influential careers of Gordon Parks, Ossie Davis, and Melvin Van Peebles.
- 1984
Marcus Garvey: Toward Black Nationhood
Marcus Garvey: Toward Black Nationhood0 1984 HD
A documentary, combining archival material and live interviews with Marcus Garvey, Jr., and others, which introduces the life and work of the pioneer...
- 2000
Here's to Life!
Here's to Life!0 2000 HD
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...
- 1960
John Brown's Raid
John Brown's Raid0 1960 HD
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,...
- 2003
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker8 2003 HD
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...
- 2003
The Tuskegee Airmen: They Fought Two Wars
The Tuskegee Airmen: They Fought Two Wars0 2003 HD
A documentary filmed at Moton Field in Tuskegee Alabama, home to the airmen of the 99th Fighter Squadron. They were the first African American...
- 2022
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues6.8 2022 HD
An intimate and revealing look at the world-changing musician, presented through a lens of archival footage and never-before-heard home recordings...
- 1994
The Stand
The Stand0 1994 HD
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...