Ruby Dee

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

2014

Self

Betty and Coretta

2013

Narrator

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

2013

Self

Mille mots

2012

Annie McCall

Video Girl

2011

Valerie

The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll

2011

Miss Candy

American Gangster

2007

Mama Lucas

Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson

2007

Self

No. 2

2006

Nanna Maria

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

2003

Taking Back Our Town

2001

Emelda West

Les racines du destin

2001

Elsie Claviere

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

1999

Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany

P'tits génies

1999

Margo

La guerre des fées

1998

Hortence

Sports on the Silver Screen

1997

Self (archive footage)

Juste Cause

1995

Evangeline Ferguson

The Ernest Green Story

1993

Lydia Wilson

Jungle Fever

1991

Lucinda Purify

The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson

1990

Jackie's Mother

Love at Large

1990

Corrine Dart

Making 'Do the Right Thing'

1989

Self

Do the Right Thing

1989

Mother Sister

Go Tell It on the Mountain

1984

Mrs. Grimes

Countdown at Kusini

1976

Leah Matanzima

Black Girl

1972

Netta's mother

To Be Young, Gifted and Black

1972

Lorraine Hansberry and other assorted characters