Ruby Dee Movies

Dr. Sam Delaney a caring physician in charge of a District Health Office in Philadelphia, treats his patient as well as the patient's illness.

A chronicle of the history of baseball in the movies. Includes interviews with the directors and stars of some of the most memorable baseball-themed...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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