Ruby Dee Movies

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

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

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...

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.

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

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

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...

Mantan Moreland's comedy feature.

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

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

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

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

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

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

From the moment of her birth in a rural black hospital in Georgia, Lena McPherson is recognized by all the nurses as a special child, one with the...