Ruby Dee Movies

Mantan Moreland's comedy feature.

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

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

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

Life affirming spiritual drama about love and loss set in the lush surroundings of Central Florida. Spencer Krane has returned to the town where he...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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