Ruby Dee Movies

Two hoodlums terrorize the passengers of a late-night New York City subway train.

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.

Two Hollywood filmmakers attempt to find Morgan Freeman in Mississippi and convince him to star in their next movie. When life gets in their way they...

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

Vampish miss Dolan hires hardboiled P.I. Harry Dobbs to tail her shady boyfriend. Harry realizes that the man leads a double life but then his client...

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...

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

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

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

Big city judge Parke Denison is involved in a forced busing dispute at the climax of his long career. The friendship between two families -- one...

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

After a deadly plague kills most of the world's population, the remaining survivors split into two groups - one led by a benevolent elder and the...