Ruby Dee

Hollywood Black

as Self (archive footage)

Poitier's Walter Lee

as Self (archive footage)

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

as Self

Betty and Coretta

as Narrator

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

as Self

A Thousand Words

as Annie McCall

Video Girl

as Valerie

Politics of Love

The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll

as Miss Candy

A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School

as Narrator (voice)

America

as Mrs. Harper

Steam

as Doris

American Gangster

as Mama Lucas

All About Us

as Ms. Ella

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

as Herself

Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson

as Self

Discovering William Greaves

as Self

The Way Back Home

as Maude

No. 2

as Nanna Maria

Iconoclasts

as Self

Their Eyes Were Watching God

as Nanny

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks

as Self

TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

as (archive footage)

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'

as Self

Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years

as Narrator

Taking Back Our Town

as Emelda West

Feast of All Saints

as Elsie Claviere

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

as Mary Wilson

Finding Buck McHenry

as Mrs. Henry

A Storm in Summer

as Grandmother

The Unfinished Journey

as Narrator (voice)

Little Bill

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

as Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany

Baby Geniuses

as Margo

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand

as Self

Passing Glory

as Mommit Porter

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

as Narrator

Christianity: The First 1000 Years

as Herself - Narrator

The Wall

as Mrs. Mitchell (segment "The Badge")

Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood

as Self

A Simple Wish

as Hortence

Sports on the Silver Screen

as Self (archive footage)

Captive Heart: The James Mink Story

as Indigo

Mr. and Mrs. Loving

as Sophia

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

as Grandma (voice)

Just Cause

as Evangeline Ferguson

Tuesday Morning Ride

as Jennie

Touched by an Angel

as LaBelle Springbelt

Whitewash

as Grandmother (voice)

The Stand

as Mother Abagail Freemantle

After Goodbye

as Narrator

Cop & ½

as Rachel

The Ernest Green Story

as Lydia Wilson

Middle Ages

as Estelle Williams

Color Adjustment

as Narrator

Jazztime Tale

as Narrator (voice)

Jungle Fever

as Lucinda Purify

Decoration Day

as Rowena

The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson

as Jackie's Mother

Love at Large

as Corrine Dart

Zora is My Name!

as Zora Neale Hurston

Making 'Do the Right Thing'

as Self

Do the Right Thing

as Mother Sister

American Experience

as Narrator (voice)

China Beach

Lincoln

as Elizabeth Keckley

Spenser: For Hire

The Golden Girls

as Mammy Watkins

The Atlanta Child Murders

as Faye Williams

Go Tell It on the Mountain

as Mrs. Grimes

Reading Rainbow

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Long Day's Journey Into Night

as Mary Tyrone

Cat People

as Female

All God's Children

as Irene Whitfield

The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

as Grandmother Baxter

Roots: The Next Generations

as Queen Haley

The Kennedy Center Honors

as Self

Countdown at Kusini

as Leah Matanzima

Police Woman

Wedding Band

as Julia Augustine

It's Good to Be Alive

as Ruth Campanella

Chelsea D.H.O.

as Dr. Bianca Pearson

Black Girl

as Netta's mother

Buck and the Preacher

as Ruth

To Be Young, Gifted and Black

as Lorraine Hansberry and other assorted characters

On Merit

as Narrator (voice)

The Sheriff

as Sue Ann Lucas

Great Performances

as Self

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

as Self (archive footage)

Deadlock

as Lucinda

Uptight

as Laurie

The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

The Incident

as Joan Robinson

Now is the Time

as Self

Neighbours

as Vicky Kingsbury

The Great Adventure

as Harriet Tubman

The Fugitive

as Laura Smith

Gone Are the Days!

as Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins

The Balcony

as Thief

The Defenders

as Catherine Collins

A Raisin in the Sun

as Ruth Younger

Take a Giant Step

as Christine

Virgin Island

as Ruth

St. Louis Blues

as Elizabeth

Edge of the City

as Lucy Tyler

Armchair Theatre

as Vicky Kingsbury

Go Man Go

as Irma Jackson

The Oscars

as Self

Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Rowena Finch

The Tall Target

as Rachel

No Way Out

as Connie Brooks (uncredited)

The Jackie Robinson Story

as Rae Robinson

The Fight Never Ends

What a Guy

Easy to Get

as Drugstore Girl

Love in Syncopation

That Man of Mine

as Joan