Ruby Dee Movies

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

Tuesday Morning Ride is based on the short story "A Summer Tragedy" by Arna Bontemps, a Harlem Renaissance writer. Set in the 1930s, the story...

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...

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.

A mosaic biopic on Lorraine Hansberry, based on the stage play combining her unpublished writings, letters, and diaries.

“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.

Mantan Moreland's comedy feature.

Featuring the swinging sounds of the all-woman band The International Sweethearts of Rhythm and a young Ruby Dee, the 1946 musical showcases...

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

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