Ruby Dee

Point noir

1968

Laurie · Writer

Betty and Coretta

2013

Narrator

Mille mots

2012

Annie McCall

Video Girl

2011

Valerie

The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll

2011

Miss Candy

A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School

2009

Narrator (voice)

America

2009

Mrs. Harper

Steam

2007

Doris

American Gangster

2007

Mama Lucas

All About Us

2007

Ms. Ella

The Way Back Home

2006

Maude

No. 2

2006

Nanna Maria

Their Eyes Were Watching God

2005

Nanny

TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

2004

(archive footage)

Taking Back Our Town

2001

Emelda West

Les racines du destin

2001

Elsie Claviere

Finding Buck McHenry

2000

Mrs. Henry

A Storm in Summer

2000

Grandmother

The Unfinished Journey

1999

Narrator (voice)

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

1999

Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany

P'tits génies

1999

Margo

Passing Glory

1999

Mommit Porter

A Time To Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner

1998

Narrator

The Wall

1998

Mrs. Mitchell (segment "The Badge")

La guerre des fées

1997

Hortence

Captive Heart: The James Mink Story

1996

Indigo

Mr. and Mrs. Loving

1996

Sophia

Juste Cause

1995

Evangeline Ferguson

Tuesday Morning Ride

1995

Jennie

Whitewash

1994

Grandmother (voice)

After Goodbye

1993

Narrator

Un Flic et demi

1993

Rachel

The Ernest Green Story

1993

Lydia Wilson

Color Adjustment

1992

Narrator

Jazztime Tale

1991

Narrator (voice)

Jungle Fever

1991

Lucinda Purify

Decoration Day

1990

Rowena

The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson

1990

Jackie's Mother

Love at Large

1990

Corrine Dart

Zora is My Name!

1990

Zora Neale Hurston

Do the Right Thing

1989

Mother Sister

Go Tell It on the Mountain

1984

Mrs. Grimes

Long Day's Journey Into Night

1982

Mary Tyrone

La Féline

1982

Female

All God's Children

1980

Irene Whitfield

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

1979

Grandmother Baxter

Countdown at Kusini

1976

Leah Matanzima

Wedding Band

1974

Julia Augustine

It's Good to Be Alive

1974

Ruth Campanella

Chelsea D.H.O.

1973

Dr. Bianca Pearson

Black Girl

1972

Netta's mother

Buck et son complice

1972

Ruth

To Be Young, Gifted and Black

1972

Lorraine Hansberry and other assorted characters

On Merit

1972

Narrator (voice)

The Sheriff

1971

Sue Ann Lucas

Deadlock

1969

Lucinda

L'incident

1967

Joan Robinson

Neighbours

1966

Vicky Kingsbury

Gone Are the Days!

1963

Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins

Le Balcon

1963

Thief

Un raisin au soleil

1961

Ruth Younger

Take a Giant Step

1959

Christine

île Vierge

1959

Ruth

St. Louis Blues

1958

Elizabeth

L'Homme qui tua la peur

1957

Lucy Tyler

Go Man Go

1954

Irma Jackson

Le Grand Attentat

1951

Rachel

La porte s'ouvre

1950

Connie Brooks (uncredited)

L'Histoire de Jackie Robinson

1950

Rae Robinson

Easy to Get

1947

Drugstore Girl

That Man of Mine

1946

Joan

Papua New Guinea: Anthropology on Trial

1983

Vocals

Poitier's Walter Lee

2018

Self (archive footage)

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

2014

Self

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

2013

Self

In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema

2007

Herself

Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson

2007

Self

Discovering William Greaves

2006

Self

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks

2004

Self

Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'

2002

Self

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand

1999

Self

Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood

1998

Self

Sports on the Silver Screen

1997

Self (archive footage)

Making 'Do the Right Thing'

1989

Self

King : De Montgomery à Memphis

1970

Self (archive footage)

Now is the Time

1967

Self

Love in Exile

2026

Politics of Love

2011

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

2003

The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six

1980

The Fight Never Ends

1948

What a Guy

1948

Love in Syncopation

1946

American Playhouse

1982

Mrs. Grimes · Zora Neale Hurston · Writer

Les Experts

2000

Mary Wilson

Les Anges du bonheur

1994

LaBelle Springbelt

American Experience

1988

Narrator (voice)

Les Craquantes

1985

Mammy Watkins

Le Fugitif

1963

Laura Smith

Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years

2002

Narrator

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

1995

Grandma (voice)

Le Fléau

1994

Mother Abagail Freemantle

Middle Ages

1992

Estelle Williams

Lincoln

1988

Elizabeth Keckley

The Atlanta Child Murders

1985

Faye Williams

Racines : Les Nouvelles Générations

1979

Queen Haley

The Great Adventure

1963

Harriet Tubman

The Defenders

1961

Catherine Collins

Armchair Theatre

1956

Vicky Kingsbury

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951

Rowena Finch

Great Performances

1971

Self

The Dick Cavett Show

1968

Self - Guest

Cérémonie des Oscars

1953

Self

Hollywood Black

2024

Self (archive footage)

Iconoclasts

2005

Self

Christianity: The First 1000 Years

1998

Herself - Narrator

Reading Rainbow

1983

Self - Narrator (voice)

The Kennedy Center Honors

1978

Self

Little Bill

1999

China Beach

1988

Spenser: For Hire

1985

Sergent Anderson

1974