Ruby Dee Movies

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...

Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.

A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the...

A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.

A film about the early life of the baseball star in the army, particulary his court-martial for insubordination regarding segragation.

An army deserter and a black dock worker join forces against a corrupt manager.

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

A British woman marries an American writer in spite of her family's disapproval and goes to live with him on a tropical island.

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

Lorie Walker is a small town girl whose big dreams of becoming a dancer come true when she becomes a star in the Hip-Hop video world. But she soon...

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

After a deadly plague kills most of the world's population, the remaining survivors split into two groups - one led by a benevolent elder and the...

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

Tells the story of Sadie and Bessie Delany, two African-American (they preferred "colored") sisters who both lived past the age of 100. They grew up...

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

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

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

Discover how television has reflected the African American experience in this retrospective of the medium's first half-century. Actors, writers and...

A true story about a concerned housewife, Pat Melancon, who tries to block Shintech, a massive Japanese petrochemical conglomerate, from building a...

Will Handy grows up in Memphis with his preacher father and his Aunt Hagar. His father intends for him to use his musical gifts only in church, but...