Ruby Dee Movies

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...

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

A mosaic biopic on Lorraine Hansberry, based on the stage play combining her unpublished writings, letters, and diaries.

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

Joe Louis, portraying himself, is a good influence on a group of Harlem youths who are tempted to "go bad" by a gangster known as Caper, an older...

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