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  • With Ossie and Ruby. Two from Langston [videorecording] / KERA-TV, Dallas ; producer and director, David Dowe.

    • Moving image
    • Dallas, Tex. : KERA-TV, 1981-02.
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-335 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

  • Hatch-Billops collection [sound recording] : [taped interviews of theater].

    • Audio
    • 1970-1974.
    • 1970-1974
  • All about Zora : the life of Zora Neale Hurston / produced and directed for television by Bill Pratt.

    • Moving image
    • United States : WHMM-TV, 1983-12-01.
    • 1983
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual VRA-52 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

  • The Black west / WCVB-TV, Boston ; produced by Karl Nurse ; directed by Larry Jordon.

    • Moving image
    • United States : WCVB-TV, 1984-02-29.
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual VRA-101 Service copy Sc Visual VRB-1952 Original of: Sc Visual VRA-101Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Do the right thing [videorecording]

    • Moving image
    • 1989.
    • 1989
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZIA 4-874Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Cotton comes to Harlem motion picture stills collection [graphic].

    • Still image
    • <1970.>
    • 1970
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Motion picturesSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

  • Making "Do the right thing" [motion picture] / The Chamba Organization and 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks ; a film by St. Clair Bourne.

    • Moving image
    • New York, N.Y. : First Run/Icarus Films, c1989.
    • 1989
    • 3 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual MPB-198 Reel 2Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
    Not available - Please for assistance.
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual MPB-198 Reel 1Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
    Not available - Please for assistance.
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual VRA-256Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • The 1999 Lucille Lortel awards for outstanding achievement Off-Broadway [videorecording] / [Video prod. company] Character Generators, Inc. ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Betty L. Corwin, director.

    • Moving image
    • New York, c1999.
    • 1999
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image NCOV 2325Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • I'll make me a world. The dream keepers [videorecording] / produced by Blackside Inc. in association with Thirteen/WNET ; produced, directed and written by Tracy Heather Strain.

    • Moving image
    • New York, N.Y. : WNET-TV, c1999.
    • 1999
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZIA 4-3771Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Another step forward in the struggle for freedom and human dignity [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • New York, N.Y. : Sue Records, [196-?]
    • 196
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 44490 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Purlie [videorecording] / [Produced by] NY City Center, Arlene Shuler, president & CEO, Mark Litvin, Sr. V.P. & managing director, City Center Encores!, Jack Viertel, artistic director, Rob Fisher, music director ; music by Gary Geld ; lyrics by Peter Udell ; book by Ossie Davis, Philip Rose, Peter Udell ; based on the play Purlie Victorious by Ossie Davis ; concert adaptation, David Ives ; choreographer, Ken Roberson ; director, Sheldon Epps ; [video director] Stucker ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.

    • Moving image
    • New York, c2005.
    • 2005
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image NCOV 2923 Videocassette 1Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image NCOV 2923 Videocassette 2Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT

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  • The Negro Ensemble Company [videorecording] / RKB Productions presents ; produced and directed by Richard Kilberg.

    • Moving image
    • New York : RBK Productions, 1987.
    • 1987-313
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image NCOX 5432Check with Staff

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Check with Staff to submit a request in person.

  • The 48th Annual Tony Awards [videorecording] / produced and directed by Walter C. Smith ; written by Buz Kohan ; executive producer Gary Smith ; originally broadcast on the CBS Television Network.

    • Moving image
    • New York, c1994.
    • 199-1994
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image NCOX 1056Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT

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  • Be my guest. Ossie Davis [videorecording] / Continental Cablevision presents ; written and created by Michall Jeffers ; produced and directed by John Warner.

    • Moving image
    • Ossining, N.Y., c1986.
    • 1986
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image NCOX 544Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Do the right thing [motion picture] / Universal ; produced by Spike Lee with Monty Ross.

    • Moving image
    • St. Louis, MO : Swank, 1989.
    • 1989
    • 4 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image M16 4278 D C.1 REEL 4 OF 4 C.1 REEL 4 OF 4Offsite

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.

    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image M16 4278 D C.1 REEL 3 OF 4 C.1 REEL 3 OF 4Offsite

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image M16 4278 D C.1 REEL 2 OF 4 C.1 REEL 2 OF 4Offsite

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  • Purlie : a musical based on the play Purlie Victorious by Ossie Davis / music by Gary Geld ; lyrics by Peter Udell ; book by Ossie Davis, Philip Rose, Peter Udell ; concert adaptation by David Ives, 2005.

    • Mixed material
    • 2005
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material NCOF+ 10-8060Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Haiti, killing the dream / directed by Babeth, Katharine Kean, Hart Perry and Rudi Stern.

    • Moving image
    • [United States] : Crowing Rooster Productions, 1992.
    • 1992-1992
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual VRA-944Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

  • From dreams to reality [motion picture] : a tribute to minority inventors / U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ; [produced by] EVKO Productions ; producer, director, writer, Vickie Kodama.

    • Moving image
    • Washington, DC : The Office : Distributed by National Audiovisual Center, 1986.
    • 1986
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual VRA-888Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual MPB-226Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
    Not available - Please for assistance.
  • Lincoln portrait [videorecording] / choreography by Eliot Feld ; [performed by] Ballet Tech ; presented by Ballet Tech Foundation in association with The Joyce Theater Foundation.

    • Moving image
    • 2002-2003.
    • 2002-2003
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZIDVD 5-7121Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Hughes' dream Harlem / directed by Jamal Joseph.

    • Moving image
    • San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 2002.
    • 2002
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-277Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

  • Broadway legends [videorecording] / Produced by John Erman and Joyce Van Patten ; directed and edited by Kathryn Barnier ; produced for the Trio Network.

    • Moving image
    • New York, c2001.
    • 2001
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image NCOX 2307Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT

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  • Ballet tech complete gala, 2003-03-11.

    • Moving image
    • 2003-311
    • 1 Resource

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/da88a990-645b-0132-7470-3c075448cc4b
  • Schomburg Center Capital Campaign launch / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

    • Moving image
    • New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1987.
    • 1987-302
    • 3 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1022 Disc 3Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1022 Disc 2Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1022 Disc 1Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Lena Horne: in her own voice [videorecording] / Produced by Ellen M. Krass ; co-producer, Karen Bernstein ; senior producer, Tamar Hacker ; directed by Susan Lacy ; executive producer for American Masters, Susan Lacy.

    • Moving image
    • New York, c1996.
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image NCOX 1338Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • The Negro Ensemble Company [videorecording] / RKB Productions presents ; produced and directed by Richard Kilberg ; written by Gus Edwards and Richard Kilberg ; executive producer for American Masters, Susan Lacy ; executive director, Jac Venza.

    • Moving image
    • New York: RKB Productions, c1987.
    • 1987
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image NCOX 478Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT

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  • Faith Berry : a book celebration / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

    • Moving image
    • New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1983.
    • 1983
    • 4 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1299 Disc 4Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1299 Disc 3Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1299 Disc 2Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Do the right thing / directed by Spike Lee.

    • Moving image
    • Universal City, Calif. : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2009]
    • 2009
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc BLURAY-8Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

  • The stars salute the Queen of Off-Broadway [videorecording] / Jean Dalrymple, producer ; Donald Saddler, director ; Haila Stoddard, coordinator ; [video director] Stucker ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Betty L. Corwin, director.

    • Moving image
    • New York, c 1985.
    • 1985
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image NCOV 413 Videodiscs 1 and 2Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT

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  • Schomburg Commission for the Preservation of Black Culture.

    • Moving image
    • New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1987.
    • 1987
    • 13 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1430 Disc 13Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1430 Disc 10Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1430 Disc 9Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Bingo [videorecording] / AMAS Repertory Theatre, Rosetta LeNoire, founder and artistic director, presents ; book by Ossie Davis and Hy Gilbert ; based on "The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings" by William Brashler ; music by George Fischoff ; lyrics by Hy Gilbert ; directed by Ossie Davis ; choreography and musical staging, Henry Le Tang.

    • Moving image
    • New York, 1985.
    • 1985
  • [Abe Burrows compilation reel] [videorecording]

    • Moving image
    • New York, 1985.
    • 1985-1957
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image NCOX 1682Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT

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  • The Spike Lee joint collection.

    • Moving image
    • Universal City, CA : Universal, [2006]
    • 2006
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1961Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Get on the bus/ directed by Spike Lee.

    • Moving image
    • Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, ©1997.
    • 1997-1996
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1940Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.

  • Still a brother: inside the Negro middle class / directed by William Greaves.

    • Moving image
    • New York : William Greaves Productions, [2018]
    • 2018-1968
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1989Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Malcolm X / directed by Spike Lee.

    • Moving image
    • Burbank, CA : Warner Brothers Entertainment, Inc., [2017]
    • 2017-1972
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc BLURAY-30Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • From the vault subject series, Vol. 2. Civil rights #2.

    • Audio
    • North Hollywood, CA : Pacific Radio Archives, 2009.
    • 2009
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio Sc CD-117Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • An evening with Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee.

    • Moving image
    • Chicago, Ill. : HistoryMakers, 2003.
    • 2003
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual VRA-1204Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Interivew with Amy Ashwood Garvey ; Interview with Amy Jacques Garvey ; Marcus Garvey, toward black nationhood.

    • Moving image
    • [199-?]
    • 199
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual VRA-1117Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • The powerbroker: Whitney Young's fight for civil rights / directed by Christine Khalafian, Taylor Hamilton.

    • Moving image
    • [Arlington, VA] : PBS Distribution, [2013]
    • 2013-2012
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1540Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • The HistoryMakers video oral history with Ossie Davis.

    • Moving image
    • Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
    • 2016
    • 1 Resource

    Available Online

    https://da-thehistorymakers-org.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2001.026
  • Melvin Van Peebles essential films : The story of a three day pass ; Watermelon man ; Sweet Sweetback's baadasssss song ; Don't play us cheap ; [Baadasssss! (Mario Van Peebles)].

    • Moving image
    • [United States] : The Criterion Collection, 2021.
    • 2021
  • The Zulu and the zayda : a play with music / by Howard DaSilva and Felix Leon ; music and lyrics by Harold Rome.

    • Audio
    • [New York] : Columbia, [1965]
    • 1965
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio LS1774Off-site
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  • Silhouettes in courage.

    • Audio
    • New York : Silhouettes in Courage, [©1969-]
    • 1969
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio LS8147Off-site
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  • Hirschfeld's Harlem / Al Hirschfeld ; introductory essays by William Saroyan and Gail Lumet Buckley.

    • Text
    • New York : Glenn Young Books, 2004.
    • 2004
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text NC1429.H57 H57 2004Off-site
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  • We shall overcome / Herb Boyd ; narrated by Ossie Davis & Rudy Dee.

    • Text
    • Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks, c2004.
    • 2004
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text E185.61 .B774 2004 +2 discsOff-site
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  • The scalphunters : story and screenplay / by William Norton.

    • Text
    • 1966.
    • 1966
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Off-site
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  • On trial : Angela Davis or America? / Rev. Ralph Abernathy, John J. Abt, Paul E. Miller ; introduction by Ossie Davis.

    • Text
    • New York, N.Y. : Angela Davis Legal Defense Fund, [1971]
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text E185.97.D23 O6 1971Off-site
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