Ruby Dee Movies

In this open-letter style documentary, Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis' rich lives guide their grandson on his personal quest to master lasting love,...

After African-American teenager Spence Scott gets expelled from his private school for arguing with a teacher, he turns to his grandmother for...

A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.

Set in 1969, Abel Shaddick, a crotchety deli owner, has a grudge against virtually everyone in his upstate New York town of Fairview, particularly...

Examines the history and purpose of the "merit system" used by the U.S. Civil Service in hiring and promoting Federal Government workers. Shows how...

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

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks is a 2003 documentary about the life of Academy Award nominated actress Beah Richards. Directed by Lisa Gay Hamilton, it...

The widows of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and how they carry on as single mothers after the assassination of their husbands.

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 matriarch organizes a feast with her family, in which she will name her successor. The heart has gone out of Nanna Maria's family. There are no...

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...

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...

A celebration of the life of Zora Neale Hurston, who was born at the turn of the 20th Century and grew to be an important voice with her written...

Inept private investigator Harry Dobbs meets vampish new client Miss Dolan, who wants him to follow her abusive lover. But Dobbs sets about tailing a...

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

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...

Big city judge Parke Denison is involved in a forced busing dispute at the climax of his long career. The friendship between two families -- one...

Two Hollywood filmmakers attempt to find Morgan Freeman in Mississippi and convince him to star in their next movie. When life gets in their way they...

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

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