Ruby Dee

An outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas.

On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.

After stretching the truth on a deal with a spiritual guru, literary agent Jack McCall finds a Bodhi tree on his property. Its appearance holds a valuable lesson on the consequences of every word he speaks.

A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child.

Scientists hold super intelligent talking babies captive, but things take a turn for the worse when a mix-up occurs between a baby genius and its twin.

A woman who was orphaned from a young age finally reunites with her older brother. Matters start to go awry when she slowly discovers the true nature of her family.

Friends and family of a married Black architect react in different ways to his affair with an Italian secretary.

A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.

After witnessing a murder, a young boy named Devon refuses to testify unless he is given the chance to be a policeman.

A bumbling fairy godfather tries to grant a girl's wish that her cabby father lands a Broadway role.

Late one night, two young toughs hold hostage the passengers in one car of a New York subway train.

The budding friendship of two NYC longshoremen is threatened by a notably repugnant co-worker.

A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.

A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the morals of her small town. Based on the novel by Zora Neale Hurston.

A New York City detective, traveling by train between New York and Baltimore, tries to foil an on-board plot to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln before he reaches Baltimore to give a major pre-Inauguration speech in 1861.

Vampish miss Dolan hires hardboiled P.I. Harry Dobbs to tail her shady boyfriend. Harry realizes that the man leads a double life but then his client disappears. Harry teams up with his own tail, P.I. Stella Wynkowski, to clear th...

In this landmark collaboration between activist and actress Ruby Dee and director Jules Dassin, Black revolutionaries are betrayed by one of their own. Based on the 1935 classic "The Informer."

After a knee injury, an aspiring ballerina ends up with a new career as a video girl, but soon figures out that fame is not all that it is cracked up to be.

A grumpy man must rejoin his community when his godchild gets in trouble and a childhood friend refuses to accept a Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery in World War II.

Dr. Maureen Brennan, a psychiatrist at a youth treatment center, encounters her newest patient, a bi-racial boy named America. Through their sessions, Dr. Brennan helps America come to terms with his roller-coaster life, which beg...

In a fictional country, the Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweeping the nation.

A matriarch organizes a feast with her family, in which she will name her successor.

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

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

Analyzes the evolution of television's earlier, unflattering portrayal of blacks from 1948 until 1988, when they are depicted as prosperous and as having achieved the American dream, a portrayal that is inconsistent with reality.

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

A wealthy Black woman in Canada gets kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South.

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 soon discover what matters to them most.

A profile of the African-American actress Beah Richards, who was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.

Documentary spanning the career of independent Black American filmmaker William Greaves, with particular emphasis on the experimental production Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968).