Ruby Dee

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 ...

A documentary on the career of William Greaves, featuring Greaves, his wife and co-producer Louise Archambault, actor Ruby Dee, filmmaker St. ...

A journey into the life and work of beat poet and activist Bob Kaufman and his insistence that poetry is fundamental to humanity’s moral ...

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

For a seventy-year period, when America cared little about the education of African-Americans, and discrimination was law and custom, The ...

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

Jack McCall is a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set his sights on New Age guru Dr. Sinja for his ...

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks is a 2003 documentary about the life of Academy Award nominated actress Beah Richards. Directed by Lisa Gay Hamilton, ...

Murray is a male fairy godmother, and he is trying to help 8-year-old Anabel to fulfil her „simple wish“ – that her father ...

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

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 ...

When a pint-sized 8-year-old kid witnesses a murder he offers to help the police, if they make him a cop, too. Saddled with this streetwise ...

From Amos ‘n’ Andy to Nat King Cole, from Roots to The Cosby Show, black people have played many roles on primetime television. ...

A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He’s quite rightly worried that the racial ...

A cantankerous widower (Garner) who is virtually living the life of a recluse is forced to rejoin his community when his Godchild (Skaggs) gets ...

Salvatore „Sal“ Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin’ Out, becomes upset when ...

After years of separation, Irena and her minister brother, Paul, reunite in New Orleans in this erotic tale of the supernatural. When zoologists ...

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

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

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

Two hoodlums terrorize the passengers of a late-night New York City subway train.

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

Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems ...

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, ...

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

A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington 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 ...