Ossie Davis

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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