Cast: Ruby Dee

Direction Henry Winkler

Cast Burt Reynolds · Norman D. Golden · Ruby Dee · Holland Taylor

Synopsis Devon Butler, a streetwise 8-year old, is about to get a shot at his lifelong dream of becoming a police officer. He's got the authoritative mannerisms down to a science but before Devon can realize his goal he's got to...

Direction Bob Clark

Cast Kathleen Turner · Christopher Lloyd · Kim Cattrall · Peter MacNicol

Direction David Lowell Rich

Cast Ossie Davis · Kaz Garas · Kyle Johnson · Edward Binns

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

Direction James Wong Howe

Cast Dane Clark · Patricia Breslin · Sidney Poitier · Anatol Winogradoff

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

Direction Ty Hodges

Cast Adam Senn · Melyssa Ford · Meagan Good · Ruby Dee

Direction Pat Jackson

Cast John Cassavetes · Virginia Maskell · Sidney Poitier · Isabel Dean

Synopsis Evan and Tina want to live their lives differently. They go to live on an island. Tina's mother is concerned about her daughter's future. There is smuggling going on on the island.

Direction Sidney Lumet · Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Martin Luther King · Paul Newman · Joanne Woodward · Ruby Dee

Synopsis King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery To Memphis is a 1970 American documentary film biography of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., presented in the form of newsreel footage and segments of recordings by Dr. King, framed by celebrity narrators, including Paul...

Direction Jerry Thorpe

Cast Richard Widmark · Ned Beatty · Ossie Davis · Ruby Dee

Synopsis An unpopular court decision by town Judge Parker Denison (Richard Widmark) to bus select black students to white schools threatens to tear the community apart when two teens -- one who is black, the other who is white -- steal...

Direction Robert J. Emery

Cast Rod Steiger · Meryl Streep · Jon Voight · Anthony Hopkins

Synopsis A documentary series focusing on some of cinema's greatest film directors.

Direction Kyle Schickner

Cast Ruby Dee · Ally Sheedy · Kate Siegel · Alan Ritchson

Synopsis Steam tells the stories of three women, linked only by the steam room at the local gym. The women seem "stuck" in life, until eachfinds a new, fulfilling relationship.

Direction Matthew Seig

Cast Billie Holiday · Buck Clayton · Ruby Dee · Harry Edison

Synopsis This sparkling documentary lets us see and hear the miracle that was Billie Holiday. Featured are rare TV and movie clips, along with commentary by a stellar group of jazz instrumentalists and singers who knew her well. Among those recalling...

Direction Brad Osborne

Cast Pearl Bowser · Leroy Collins · Ruby Dee · Herb Jeffries

Synopsis At a time when Hollywood refused to cast Blacks in films except as servants and buffoons, an artistic underground developed so called "Race movies" - featuring all Black audiences...

Direction Robert Markowitz

Cast James Garner · Judith Ivey · Ruby Dee · Bill Cobbs

Synopsis A cantankerous widower (Garner) who is virtually living the life of a recluse is forced to rejoin his community when his Godchild (Skaggs) gets in trouble and a childhood friend (Cobbs), a black tenant farmer, refuses to belatedly accept a...

Direction Yves Simoneau

Cast Angela Bassett · Mary J. Blige · Angie Medrano · Ayisha Issa

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

Direction Nicholas Webster

Cast Ossie Davis · Ruby Dee · Godfrey Cambridge · Hilda Haynes

Synopsis An idealistic young man returns to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. He brings his fiancée Lutiebelle, but hopes to convince the plantation owner that she is really his cousin to secure the family inheritance. Aiding the comic...

Direction Ed Bell · Thomas Lennon

Cast Whoopi Goldberg · Angela Bassett · Michael Boatman · Roscoe Lee Browne

Direction Lee Philips

Cast Jaclyn Smith · Robert Wagner · Ian McKellen · Michael Moriarty

Synopsis When Mary Ashley (Jaclyn Smith) is approached to become Ambassador of the United States of America in Romania, she does not take the offer, because her husband does not want to give up his well-going doctor's office. Shortly afterward, Dr....

Direction Peter Medak

Cast Robert Ri'chard · Peter Gallagher · Gloria Reuben · Jennifer Beals

Synopsis Magloire Dazincourt, the owner of Bontemps, the largest sugar plantation of the entire South, asks his favorite cousin, Philippe Ferronaire, to marry his daughter Aglae Dazincourt and take over most of its management and family, including his colored mistress Cecile...

Direction Scott D. Rosenbaum

Cast Peter Fonda · Kevin Zegers · Taryn Manning · Jason Ritter

Synopsis A rock star retreats to his hometown after his sophomore album flops.

Direction John Erman

Cast Calvin Levels · Morgan Freeman · James Earl Jones · Rip Torn

Synopsis The city of Atlanta, Georgia, is terrorized by a rash of child murders occurring in its black community. When a black photographer is arrested for the crimes, controversy erupts over whether he is the actual killer or a scapegoat offered...