Ruby Dee Movies

Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Danny Aiello

A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Wesley Snipes

Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Russell Crowe

In "America," Dr. Maureen Brennan, a psychiatrist at a youth treatment center, encounters her newest patient, a bi-racial boy named America. Through...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Philip Johnson

After years of separation, Irena Gallier and her minister brother, Paul, reunite in New Orleans. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irena is...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Nastassja Kinski

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tom Berenger

A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sean Connery

When a pint-sized 8-year-old kid witnesses a murder he offers to help the police, if they make him a cop, too. Saddled with this streetwise sidekick,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Burt Reynolds

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

Genre: Action

Cast: Sidney Poitier

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ruby Dee

A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Dick Powell

An army deserter and a black dock worker join forces against a corrupt manager.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Cassavetes

Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sidney Poitier

Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jackie Robinson

A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Halle Berry

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

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Tony Musante

Murray is a male fairy godmother, and he is trying to help 8-year-old Anabel to fulfil her "simple wish" - that her father Oliver, who is a cab...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Martin Short

When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era survivors...

Genre: History

Cast: Whoopi Goldberg

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

Genre: Romance

Cast: Brian J. White

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...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Robert Ri'chard

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leslie Uggams

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Meagan Good

A cantankerous widower (Garner) who is virtually living the life of a recluse is forced to rejoin his community when his Godchild (Skaggs) gets in...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: James Garner

Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruby Dee

When an 11 year old boy gets cut from his Little League baseball team, he sets out to form his own team.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ossie Davis

A moving and uplifting drama about the effects of interracial marriage in the 1960s. Friends since childhood, and loved by both families, this couple...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Timothy Hutton

This movie details the struggles of former Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella to adapt to life in a wheelchair following his crippling automobile...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Winfield

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Falk

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mumia Abu-Jamal

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Angela Bassett

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruby Dee

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Benjamin

This pioneering film in the history of African-American cinema, released two years before "A Raisin In The Sun", is the coming-of-age story of a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Johnny Nash

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Cassavetes

Tuesday Morning Ride is based on the short story "A Summer Tragedy" by Arna Bontemps, a Harlem Renaissance writer. Set in the 1930s, the story...

Genre:

Cast: Vivian Bonnell

A young, idealistic man returns home to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. With him, he brings his fiance, Lutiebelle, in hopes of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ossie Davis

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andre Braugher

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruby Dee

When Helene Angel walks home from school with her older brother she is attacked by a street gang and painted white. The effect on Helene and her...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Serena Henry

A true story about a concerned housewife, Pat Melancon, who tries to block Shintech, a massive Japanese petrochemical conglomerate, from building a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laura Innes

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andre Braugher

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Norma Canner

Tells the story of Sadie and Bessie Delany, two African-American (they preferred "colored") sisters who both lived past the age of 100. They grew up...

Genre: History

Cast: Diahann Carroll

Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Widmark

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Louis Gossett Jr.

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruby Dee

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kevin Zegers

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Danny Aiello

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Widmark

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lawrence Varnado

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Winfield

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks is a 2003 documentary about the life of Academy Award nominated actress Beah Richards. Directed by Lisa Gay Hamilton, it...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Beah Richards

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Morris Chestnut

Jack McCall is a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set his sights on New Age guru Dr. Sinja for his own...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eddie Murphy

A celebration of the life of Zora Neale Hurston, who was born at the turn of the 20th Century and grew to be an important voice with her written...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Louis Gossett Jr.

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Muhammad Ali

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nat King Cole

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shelley Winters

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ossie Davis

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dane Clark

From Amos 'n' Andy to Nat King Cole, from Roots to The Cosby Show, black people have played many roles on primetime television. Brilliantly weaving...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ruby Dee

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: William Greaves

BabyCo is the world's leading manufacturer in baby products. However, what the public doesn't know, is that Drs Kinder and Heep, two of its most...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Kathleen Turner

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mia Mask

A mosaic biopic on Lorraine Hansberry, based on the stage play combining her unpublished writings, letters, and diaries.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruby Dee

A rape case opens racial divisions in a small town. A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate allegations that a wealthy white businessman...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Ossie Davis

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ruby Dee

Examines the history and purpose of the "merit system" used by the U.S. Civil Service in hiring and promoting Federal Government workers. Shows how...

Genre:

Cast: Ruby Dee

A short about American life and history produced for the millennium New Year's Eve celebration.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bill Clinton

A retrospective look at the career of Paul Robeson and his legacy as both an American and a citizen of the world.

Genre:

Cast: William Greaves

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand presents the life and achievements of an extraordinary man. Athlete, singer, and scholar, Robeson was also a charismatic...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paul Robeson

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...

Genre:

Cast: Ruby Dee

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Boris Kodjoe

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Wendell Corey

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

Genre: Animation

Cast: Ruby Dee

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Liev Schreiber

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

Genre:

Cast: Betty Haynes

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leslie Nielsen

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...

Genre: War

Cast: Edward James Olmos

Award-winning actress Ruby Dee narrates this powerful documentary about the impact of AIDS on the families, friends and members of the acclaimed...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ruby Dee

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Thommie Blackwell

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ruby Dee

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...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Gary Sinise

The Robinson's like to see themselves as liberals. So when their new black neighbours the Kingsbury's move into their apartment block they are...

Genre:

Cast: Ruby Dee