Ruby Dee Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

A mosaic biopic on Lorraine Hansberry, based on the stage play combining her unpublished writings, letters, and diaries.

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

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...

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...

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...

Follows the band's rise in show business, starting with its origins in the Navy during World War II and their struggle to make it.

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...

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

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

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

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

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