Ruby Dee Movies

Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, the documentary follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1955 to 1968, in his rise from regional...

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

In this film, childhood friends come face to face with the demons of rock and roll (lust, drugs, and passion) on a cross-country road trip that...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

James Mink is a black man in Canada who has built a very successful livery business, and enjoys a white wife and a beautiful daughter, Mary. An...

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

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...

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...

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

This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both...

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...

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