Ruby Dee

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Mary Wilson

Great Performances

Self

The Dick Cavett Show

Self - Guest

Touched by an Angel

LaBelle Springbelt

The Fugitive

Laura Smith

American Playhouse

Mrs. Grimes

American Playhouse

Zora Neale Hurston

American Playhouse

Writer

American Experience

Narrator (voice)

The Golden Girls

Mammy Watkins

The Defenders

Catherine Collins

Police Woman

Reading Rainbow

Self - Narrator (voice)

The Oscars

Self

China Beach

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

Grandma (voice)

The Kennedy Center Honors

Self

Spenser: For Hire

American Gangster

Mama Lucas

The Stand

Mother Abagail Freemantle

The Great Adventure

Harriet Tubman

Roots: The Next Generations

Queen Haley

Do the Right Thing

Mother Sister

Hollywood Black

Self (archive footage)

Little Bill

Jungle Fever

Lucinda Purify

A Thousand Words

Annie McCall

Iconoclasts

Self

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Rowena Finch

Just Cause

Evangeline Ferguson

Baby Geniuses

Margo

Cat People

Female

The Atlanta Child Murders

Faye Williams

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

Narrator

Armchair Theatre

Vicky Kingsbury

A Simple Wish

Hortence

The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six

A Raisin in the Sun

Ruth Younger

Buck and the Preacher

Ruth

Feast of All Saints

Elsie Claviere

Edge of the City

Lucy Tyler

Lincoln

Elizabeth Keckley

The Ernest Green Story

Lydia Wilson

Go Tell It on the Mountain

Mrs. Grimes

Sports on the Silver Screen

Self (archive footage)

No Way Out

Connie Brooks (uncredited)

Christianity: The First 1000 Years

Herself - Narrator

Cop & ½

Rachel

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

Self (archive footage)

Captive Heart: The James Mink Story

Indigo

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

Self

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

Uptight

Laurie

Uptight

Writer

Middle Ages

Estelle Williams

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Grandmother Baxter

Video Girl

Valerie

Making 'Do the Right Thing'

Self

Diamonds on the Silver Screen

Self

The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll

Miss Candy

The Jackie Robinson Story

Rae Robinson

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Nanny

The Incident

Joan Robinson

A Storm in Summer

Grandmother

Color Adjustment

Narrator

America

Mrs. Harper

TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

(archive footage)

Poitier's Walter Lee

Self (archive footage)

The Tall Target

Rachel

Zora is My Name!

Zora Neale Hurston

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

Self

Taking Back Our Town

Emelda West

Take a Giant Step

Christine

Mr. and Mrs. Loving

Sophia

Gone Are the Days!

Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins

All God's Children

Irene Whitfield

Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years

Narrator

The Way Back Home

Maude

Betty and Coretta

Narrator

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand

Self

St. Louis Blues

Elizabeth

The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson

Jackie's Mother

Neighbours

Vicky Kingsbury

On Merit

Narrator (voice)

The Stand

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks

Self

The Sheriff

Sue Ann Lucas

Love at Large

Corrine Dart

To Be Young, Gifted and Black

Lorraine Hansberry and other assorted characters

It's Good to Be Alive

Ruth Campanella

Black Girl

Netta's mother

No. 2

Nanna Maria

Whitewash

Grandmother (voice)

Steam

Doris

Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood

Self

Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson

Self

Finding Buck McHenry

Mrs. Henry

The Unfinished Journey

Narrator (voice)

Passing Glory

Mommit Porter

Politics of Love

The Wall

Mrs. Mitchell (segment "The Badge")

After Goodbye

Narrator

Chelsea D.H.O.

Dr. Bianca Pearson

Decoration Day

Rowena

Go Man Go

Irma Jackson

All About Us

Ms. Ella

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Mary Tyrone

Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'

Self

Now is the Time

Self

Tuesday Morning Ride

Jennie

What a Guy

That Man of Mine

Joan

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

Herself

The Fight Never Ends

Wedding Band

Julia Augustine

Deadlock

Lucinda

Virgin Island

Ruth

The Balcony

Thief

Love in Exile

Papua New Guinea: Anthropology on Trial

Vocals

A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School

Narrator (voice)

Countdown at Kusini

Leah Matanzima

Easy to Get

Drugstore Girl

Love in Syncopation

Jazztime Tale

Narrator (voice)

Discovering William Greaves

Self