Ruby Dee Movies

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...

Panel discussion about the original Broadway production of Lorraine Hansbury's "A Raisin in the Sun."

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

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

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

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 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...

Dr. Sam Delaney a caring physician in charge of a District Health Office in Philadelphia, treats his patient as well as the patient's illness.

Joe Louis, portraying himself, is a good influence on a group of Harlem youths who are tempted to "go bad" by a gangster known as Caper, an older...

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

Award-winning actress Ruby Dee narrates this powerful documentary about the impact of AIDS on the families, friends and members of the acclaimed...

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

Politics makes strange bedfellows, but never stranger than when a sexy, savvy, African-American conservative Republican reluctantly falls for his...

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

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...

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

Mantan Moreland's comedy feature.

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

U.S. Army training film about avoiding venereal disease, intended primarily for Black servicemen.

Over the course of one day in August 1912, the family of retired actor James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of his wife Mary, the...