Cast: Ruby Dee

Direction Yves Simoneau

Cast Philip Johnson · Rosie O'Donnell · Ruby Dee · Tim Rhoze

Synopsis Dr. Maureen Brennan, a psychiatrist at a youth treatment center, encounters her newest patient, a bi-racial boy named America.

Direction Jon Goodman

Cast Paul Breines · Catherine Brooks · Ruth Brown · Jerry Butler

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Jackie Robinson · Ruby Dee · Minor Watson · Louise Beavers

Synopsis Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.

Direction Lamont Johnson

Cast Sam Waterston · Mary Tyler Moore · Richard Mulligan · Deborah Adair

Direction Lynne Littman

Cast Diahann Carroll · Ruby Dee · Amy Madigan · Lisa Arrindell Anderson

Synopsis Tells the story of Sadie and Bessie Delany, two African-American (they preferred "colored") sisters who both lived past the age of 100. They grew up on a North Carolina college campus, the daughters of the first African-American Episcopal bishop, who...

Direction Allen Reisner

Cast Nat 'King' Cole · Eartha Kitt · Cab Calloway · Ella Fitzgerald

Synopsis Will Handy grows up in Memphis with his preacher father and his Aunt Hagar. His father intends for him to use his musical gifts only in church, but he can't stay away from the music of the streets and workers....

Direction William Woodman

Cast Thommie Blackwell · Ruby Dee · Rhetta Hughes · Earle Hyman

Synopsis 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 illness of their youngest son Edmund and the alcoholism and debauchery of their older...

Direction Toa Fraser

Cast Ruby Dee · Tuva Novotny · Mia Blake · Taungaroa Emile

Synopsis Living in Mt. Roskill, Auckland, Nana Maria struggles to get her grandchildren together for a traditional Fijian feast in which she means to name her successor as Matriarch. Film runs over about a 18 hour or so period of time.

Direction Linda Bloodworth-Thomason · Burt Reynolds · Harry Thomason · James Hampton

Cast Burt Reynolds · Marilu Henner · Charles Durning · Michael Jeter

Synopsis (1990-1994). 4 seasons. In this laid-back comedy, Wood Newton is a former pro American Football player who has retired and returned to his childhood home, the small town of Evening Shade, Arkansas.

Direction Stan Lathan

Cast Paul Winfield · James Bond III · Olivia Cole · Roderick Wimberly

Synopsis This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both salvation and understanding and of a young boy struggling to earn the approval of a self-righteous...

Direction Michael Sporn

Cast Ruby Dee

Synopsis Set in 1919 Harlem, two girls (one white, one black) form a lifelong friendship through a chance encounter and the jazztime music of young "Fats" Waller. Narrated by Ruby Dee.

Direction Philip Leacock

Cast Johnny Nash · Estelle Hemsley · Ruby Dee · Frederick O'Neal

Synopsis A black high school senior struggles with becoming a man, and living in a middle class white neighborhood in the late 1950s U.S. In protest of the paternalistic views of the Civil War emphasized in his history class, he storms...

Direction Tommy Oliver

Cast Wayne Brady · Hill Harper · Sharon Leal · Ruby Dee

Synopsis A father struggles to protect his daughter from the reality of her mother's drug addiction in Tommy Oliver's powerful, semi-autobiographical debut.

Direction Larry Peerce

Cast André Braugher · Daniel Stern · Ruby Dee · Stan Shaw

Synopsis A biopic about the early life of the baseball star legend Jackie Robinson in the army, particulary his court-martial for insubordination regarding racial segragation. Made for the TNT cable network, The Court Martial of Jackie Robinson concentrates on the wartime...

Direction Ossie Davis

Cast Brock Peters · Claudia McNeil · Leslie Uggams · Louise Stubbs

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

Direction Steve James

Cast André Braugher · Rip Torn · Sean Squire · Ruby Dee

Synopsis A talented all-black high school basketball team challenges the top all-white team in civil-rights-era New Orleans.

Direction Joseph Papp · Jack Sameth

Cast Ruby Dee · J.D. Cannon · Eileen Heckart · Rosanna Carter

Direction Joseph Sargent

Cast Edward James Olmos · Savion Glover · Ruby Dee · Frank Whaley

Synopsis 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 the living with the dead and are left as either memorials or to heal the...