Ruby Dee Movies

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

The story of three items left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall: a pencil holder, a sheriff's badge, and an electric guitar. Each item connects...

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

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...

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

Mantan Moreland's comedy feature.

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

Jason Ross is an 11-year-old boy whose love for baseball exceeds his talent for the game. When cut from his little league team, Jason's undefeatable...

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

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

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

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

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...