Ossie Davis

Born a slave, young Frederick Douglass endures many years of cruelty before escaping to the North to claim his freedom.

Based on a true incident: A team of Miami cops set up a fencing operation to catch thieves. Trouble looms when the team runs low on funds and the Mafia tries to muscle in.

Originally aired as a television mini-series, this all-star filmization of Stephen King's gripping epic of good versus evil chronicles the episodic adventures of a disparate group of people who struggle to reestablish civilization after a man-made catastrophe wipes out most of the world's population. The world abruptly ends when a deadly virus accidentally escapes from a government sponsored biological warfare laboratory. Soon people are dropping...

They're Grumpy Old Men. The wit hits the fan as two play Minnesota ice-fishing pals whose crusty friendship grows hilariously icier as they vie for an attractive widow. The sequel Grumpier Old Men most of the original cast returns. A vivacious newcomer wants to turn the beloved bait shop into a chichi ristorante. Of course, in this part of the Land of 1000 Lakes, that means war.

African-American folklore was Zora Neale Hurston's first love. Collected in the late 1920's Every Tongue Got to Confess, from the celebrated author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, is published here for the first time, beautifully performed by Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis. Hilarious, bittersweet, and often saucy, these folk-tales provide a verdant slice of African-American life in the rural South at the turn of the twentieth century. They capture the...

Sean Connery stars in this tense drama about a group of North African prisoners who rebel against their British captors during WWII.