Ruby Dee Movies

This documentary captures the sounds and images of a nearly forgotten era in film history when African American filmmakers and studios created...

Set in 1969, Abel Shaddick, a crotchety deli owner, has a grudge against virtually everyone in his upstate New York town of Fairview, particularly...

A multimedia short created for the U.S. millennium celebrations, The Unfinished Journey reflects on America’s history and spirit through six...

This movie details the struggles of former Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella to adapt to life in a wheelchair following his crippling automobile...

The murder of a journalist, coming shortly after the killings of a black teenager and a white cop, threatens to inflame passions in the city. To...

Set to a jazz accompaniment, the dramatic performance centered on Black love and survival weaves together Bible verses, free-verse and prose Davis...

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand presents the life and achievements of an extraordinary man. Athlete, singer, and scholar, Robeson was also a charismatic...

The story of three items left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall: a pencil holder, a sheriff's badge, and an electric guitar. Each item connects...

Three women — a young coed, a forty-something single mother, and one a senior-aged widow — meet in the sauna of the local gym, where they...

Follows the band's rise in show business, starting with its origins in the Navy during World War II and their struggle to make it.

Jason Ross is an 11-year-old boy whose love for baseball exceeds his talent for the game. When cut from his little league team, Jason's undefeatable...

After African-American teenager Spence Scott gets expelled from his private school for arguing with a teacher, he turns to his grandmother for...

Big city judge Parke Denison is involved in a forced busing dispute at the climax of his long career. The friendship between two families -- one...

The Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweeping the nation.

The widows of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and how they carry on as single mothers after the assassination of their husbands.

An interview with film scholar Mia Mask, co-editor of Poitier Revisited.

Louis Gossett Jr. takes viewers through a special documentary celebration of the groundbreaking achievements of African-American performers and their...

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

The film chronicles the life and revolutionary times of death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.

A true story of a priest (Andre Braugher) in New Orleans who formed a group of black players and challenged an all-white prep school basketball team...