Ruby Dee Movies

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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...