Ruby Dee Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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.

Featuring the swinging sounds of the all-woman band The International Sweethearts of Rhythm and a young Ruby Dee, the 1946 musical showcases...

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...

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

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

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...

Based on writer Maya Angelou's eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she...

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

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.

A drama which examines the enduring nature of love between a white man and a black woman in 1918 South Carolina.

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

Mantan Moreland's comedy feature.

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