Ossie Davis
31 titles
Filmography
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The Hill
(1965)Sean Connery headlines this stark tale of war inside military prison walls. The inmates are soldiers who once defied, rebelled, talked back.

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
(2003)The acclaimed documentary about Nat Turner’s slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831 and the harsh civil rights losses and mob reprisals that followed.

Joe Versus the Volcano
(1990)Life begins with a journey around the world for a squashed bug of a guy under the heel of a hideous corporation just as he’s told he’s about to die.

Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
(1998)This potent documentary, narrated by Morgan Freeman, examines several prominent Black performers in the American film and television industries during the 1950s Communist witch-hunting McCarthy era.

Death of a Prophet
(1981)The last hours of Malcolm X’s life are detailed, as he spreads the word of equality and brotherhood up until the moment of his untimely assassination.

Let's Do It Again
(1975)When an Atlanta milkman (Poitier) and his fast-talking factory worker friend (Cosby) want to take the wives on a long-planned vacation to New Orleans and need to find the cash to build a new meeting house for their fraternal lodge, they devise a long-shot scheme to hypnotize a scrawny, losing prizefighter (Jimmy Walker) into believing he is--and then becoming--a champion in this hilarious seque...

Miss Evers' Boys
(1997)Emmy-winning story of a 1930s experiment in which the U.S. government withheld treatment from African American syphilis patients.

Gladiator
(1992)Two young men - both talented with their fists - find themselves trying to survive in the brutal, no-rules world of underground prize fighting. A primal, jaw-shattering story,

Harry & Son
(1984)A widower and crane operator and his artistically inclined son attempt to salvage their relationship after dad gets fired from his construction job.

She Hate Me
(2004)Wharton-educated biotech executive John Henry "Jack" Armstrong (Anthony Mackie) gets fired when he informs on his bosses launching an investigation into their business dealings by the Securities & Exchange Commission. Branded a whistle-blower and therefore unemployable, Jack desperately needs to make a living. When his former girlfriend Fatima (Kerry Washington), a high powered businesswoman an..

Grumpy Old Men
(1993)Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau reunite in this romantic comedy that examines the decades-old love-hate relationship between two neighbors.