Ruby Dee

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Mary Wilson

Great Performances

Self

The Fugitive

Laura Smith

American Experience

Narrator (voice)

The Golden Girls

Mammy Watkins

Touched by an Angel

LaBelle Springbelt

Police Woman

The Defenders

Catherine Collins

The Stand

Mother Abagail Freemantle

The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll

Miss Candy

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

Grandma (voice)

American Gangster

Mama Lucas

Spenser: For Hire

The Great Adventure

Harriet Tubman

China Beach

The Kennedy Center Honors

Self

The Balcony

Thief

Captive Heart: The James Mink Story

Indigo

Reading Rainbow

Self - Narrator (voice)

Tuesday Morning Ride

Jennie

Roots: The Next Generations

Queen Haley

Taking Back Our Town

Emelda West

To Be Young, Gifted and Black

Lorraine Hansberry and other assorted characters

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Mary Tyrone

A Thousand Words

Annie McCall

Little Bill

Do the Right Thing

Mother Sister

Gone Are the Days!

Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins

Cat People

Female

The Way Back Home

Maude

Poitier's Walter Lee

Self (archive footage)

Edge of the City

Lucy Tyler

The Incident

Joan Robinson

Iconoclasts

Self

The Atlanta Child Murders

Faye Williams

Baby Geniuses

Margo

Politics of Love

Making 'Do the Right Thing'

Self

Mr. and Mrs. Loving

Sophia

Feast of All Saints

Elsie Claviere

A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School

Narrator (voice)

Just Cause

Evangeline Ferguson

No. 2

Nanna Maria

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Rowena Finch

Passing Glory

Mommit Porter

Jungle Fever

Lucinda Purify

The Tall Target

Rachel

Lincoln

Elizabeth Keckley

The Wall

Mrs. Mitchell (segment "The Badge")

After Goodbye

Narrator

A Simple Wish

Hortence

Buck and the Preacher

Ruth

Decoration Day

Rowena

Wedding Band

Julia Augustine

Uptight

Laurie

America

Mrs. Harper

No Way Out

Connie Brooks (uncredited)

Betty and Coretta

Narrator

Deadlock

Lucinda

All About Us

Ms. Ella

Love in Syncopation

Love at Large

Corrine Dart

Countdown at Kusini

Leah Matanzima

Cop & ½

Rachel

The Fight Never Ends

Steam

Doris

A Raisin in the Sun

Ruth Younger

That Man of Mine

Joan

Middle Ages

Estelle Williams

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Nanny

Color Adjustment

Narrator

Video Girl

Valerie

Easy to Get

Drugstore Girl

Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'

Self

The Unfinished Journey

Narrator (voice)

The Jackie Robinson Story

Rae Robinson

Zora is My Name!

Zora Neale Hurston

What a Guy

Christianity: The First 1000 Years

Herself - Narrator

Virgin Island

Ruth

Black Girl

Netta's mother

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

Self (archive footage)

A Storm in Summer

Grandmother

All God's Children

Irene Whitfield

Go Tell It on the Mountain

Mrs. Grimes

St. Louis Blues

Elizabeth

Whitewash

Grandmother (voice)

Take a Giant Step

Christine

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany

The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson

Jackie's Mother

TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

(archive footage)

On Merit

Narrator (voice)

The Ernest Green Story

Lydia Wilson

Neighbours

Vicky Kingsbury

The Sheriff

Sue Ann Lucas

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

Self

It's Good to Be Alive

Ruth Campanella

Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years

Narrator

Chelsea D.H.O.

Dr. Bianca Pearson

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks

Self

Sports on the Silver Screen

Self (archive footage)

Finding Buck McHenry

Mrs. Henry

Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson

Self

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand

Self

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Grandmother Baxter

Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood

Self

Go Man Go

Irma Jackson

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

Self

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

Herself

Jazztime Tale

Narrator (voice)

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

Narrator

The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six

Discovering William Greaves

Self

The Dick Cavett Show

Self - Guest