Ruby Dee Movies

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...

An army deserter and a black dock worker join forces against a corrupt manager.

Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.

The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing.

A short about American life and history produced for the millennium New Year's Eve celebration.

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...

When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era survivors...

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

After a deadly plague kills most of the world's population, the remaining survivors split into two groups - one led by a benevolent elder and the...

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

A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the...

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

In this film, childhood friends come face to face with the demons of rock and roll (lust, drugs, and passion) on a cross-country road trip that...

In 1963 a group of young Black boys living in Harlem were involved in an incident that earned them the nickname "The Harlem Six." Intent on...

A rape case opens racial divisions in a small town. A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate allegations that a wealthy white businessman...

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...

Follows the story of Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine who were the first blacks to integrate into an all white school.

Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Colour, a dazzling yet damned class caught...

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

Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, the documentary follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1955 to 1968, in his rise from regional...