Ruby Dee Movies

A moving and uplifting drama about the effects of interracial marriage in the 1960s. Friends since childhood, and loved by both families, this couple...

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

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

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

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...

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

Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Colour, a dazzling yet damned class caught...

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...

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

Two hoodlums terrorize the passengers of a late-night New York City subway train.

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

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...

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.

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

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

An American musician working in Nigeria becomes involved with a patriot hunted by a mercenary in Africa.

A matriarch organizes a feast with her family, in which she will name her successor. The heart has gone out of Nanna Maria's family. There are no...

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