Ruby Dee Movies

A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.

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

From Amos 'n' Andy to Nat King Cole, from Roots to The Cosby Show, black people have played many roles on primetime television. Brilliantly weaving...

The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing.

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

An aspiring dancer and her two wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.

A short about American life and history produced for the millennium New Year's Eve celebration.

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

In this open-letter style documentary, Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis' rich lives guide their grandson on his personal quest to master lasting love,...

In 1963 a group of young Black boys living in Harlem were involved in an incident that earned them the nickname "The Harlem Six." Intent on...

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

HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from...

A rape case opens racial divisions in a small town. A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate allegations that a wealthy white businessman...

When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era survivors...

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

The story of Abe Saperstein and the creation of the Harlem Globetrotters.

When Helene Angel walks home from school with her older brother she is attacked by a street gang and painted white. The effect on Helene and her...

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...

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...

A young, idealistic man returns home to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. With him, he brings his fiance, Lutiebelle, in hopes of...