Ruby Dee Movies

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

"Papua New Guinea: Anthropology on Trial" was a 1983 episode of the PBS science documentary series NOVA. It explored the field of anthropology,...

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

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