Ossie Davis

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

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 ...

James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources.

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 ...

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

John and Ellen have a picture-perfect life: while John runs a successful business, Ellen works as a schoolteacher, and they’ve raised two ...

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks is a 2003 documentary about the life of Academy Award nominated actress Beah Richards. Directed by Lisa Gay Hamilton, ...

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 ...

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

Director Mario Van Peebles chronicles the complicated production of his father Melvin’s classic 1971 film, “Sweet Sweetback’s ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Molly, former baby prostitute “Angel” from Sunset Boulevard, has managed to leave her street life with help of Lt. Andrews. She ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.

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 ...

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 ...

A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He’s quite rightly worried that the racial ...

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 ...

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