Ruby Dee Movies

For a seventy-year period, when America cared little about the education of African-Americans, and discrimination was law and custom, The Bordentown...

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

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

“Now is the Time” is a mosaic of marches, Black spiritual, emotional, and inner life set to the readings of Langston Hughes, James...

Mantan Moreland's comedy feature.

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

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

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...

Set to a jazz accompaniment, the dramatic performance centered on Black love and survival weaves together Bible verses, free-verse and prose Davis...

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

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

A documentary on the career of William Greaves, featuring Greaves, his wife and co-producer Louise Archambault, actor Ruby Dee, filmmaker St. Clair...

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

Set in Harlem in 1919, two girls - one white, one black - form a lifelong friendship through a chance encounter and the jazztime music of young...

This intimate, uncannily moving documentary profiles Norma Canner, a pioneer in dance movement therapy, who found in dance a way to help people who...