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.

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 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.