Movies: Ruby Dee

  • 2007
    Steam

    Steam (2007)

    Steam

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    Three women — a young coed, a forty-something single mother, and one a senior-aged widow — meet in the sauna of the local gym, where they gradually get to know one another and bond over their respective trials and tribulations....

    Steam
  • 1968
    Uptight

    Uptight (1968)

    Uptight

    6.51968HD

    Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own....

    Uptight
  • 2005
    Their Eyes Were Watching God

    Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005)

    Their Eyes Were Watching God

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    A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the morals of her small town. Based on the novel by Zora Neale Hurston....

    Their Eyes Were Watching God
  • 1951
    The Tall Target

    The Tall Target (1951)

    The Tall Target

    6.81951HD

    A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861....

    The Tall Target
  • 1990
    The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson

    The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson (1990)

    The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson

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    A film about the early life of the baseball star in the army, particulary his court-martial for insubordination regarding segragation....

    The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
  • 1957
    Edge of the City

    Edge of the City (1957)

    Edge of the City

    7.01957HD

    An army deserter and a black dock worker join forces against a corrupt manager....

    Edge of the City
  • 1999
    The Unfinished Journey

    The Unfinished Journey (1999)

    The Unfinished Journey

    61999HD

    A short about American life and history produced for the millennium New Year's Eve celebration....

    The Unfinished Journey
  • 1959
    Virgin Island

    Virgin Island (1959)

    Virgin Island

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    A British woman marries an American writer in spite of her family's disapproval and goes to live with him on a tropical island....

    Virgin Island
  • 1989
    Making 'Do the Right Thing'

    Making 'Do the Right Thing' (1989)

    Making 'Do the Right Thing'

    6.71989HD

    The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing....

    Making 'Do the Right Thing'
  • 2011
    Video Girl

    Video Girl (2011)

    Video Girl

    6.32011HD

    Lorie Walker is a small town girl whose big dreams of becoming a dancer come true when she becomes a star in the Hip-Hop video world. But she soon learns the hard way that life in front of the camera is not as glamorous as it seems....

    Video Girl
  • 1997
    Sports on the Silver Screen

    Sports on the Silver Screen (1997)

    Sports on the Silver Screen

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    HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from the earliest silent films until the nineties. Watch not for dramatic scenes but for the glimpse of hi...

    Sports on the Silver Screen
  • 1994
    The Stand

    The Stand (1994)

    The Stand

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    After a deadly plague kills most of the world's population, the remaining survivors split into two groups - one led by a benevolent elder and the other by a malevolent being - to face each other in a final battle between good and evil....

    The Stand
  • 1993
    The Ernest Green Story

    The Ernest Green Story (1993)

    The Ernest Green Story

    6.91993HD

    Follows the story of Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine who were the first blacks to integrate into an all white school....

    The Ernest Green Story
  • 1999
    Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

    Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (1999)

    Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

    7.51999HD

    Tells the story of Sadie and Bessie Delany, two African-American (they preferred "colored") sisters who both lived past the age of 100. They grew up on a North Carolina college campus, the daughters of the first African-American Episcopal bishop, who...

    Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
  • 2013
    Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

    Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal (2013)

    Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

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    The film chronicles the life and revolutionary times of death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal....

    Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
  • 1963
    The Balcony

    The Balcony (1963)

    The Balcony

    5.21963HD

    The Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweeping the nation. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010....

    The Balcony
  • 2007
    In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema

    In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema (2007)

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

    6.52007HD

    This documentary captures the sounds and images of a nearly forgotten era in film history when African American filmmakers and studios created “race movies” exclusively for black audiences. The best of these films attempted to counter the demeaning s...

    In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema
  • 2004
    TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

    TV in Black: The First Fifty Years (2004)

    TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

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    Discover how television has reflected the African American experience in this retrospective of the medium's first half-century. Actors, writers and historians discuss the image of black America on television from Amos and Andy to the present day. The...

    TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
  • 2001
    Taking Back Our Town

    Taking Back Our Town (2001)

    Taking Back Our Town

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    A true story about a concerned housewife, Pat Melancon, who tries to block Shintech, a massive Japanese petrochemical conglomerate, from building a plant in her toxic township already known as "cancer alley". Pat and a few newly recruited, fledgling ...

    Taking Back Our Town
  • 1958
    St. Louis Blues

    St. Louis Blues (1958)

    St. Louis Blues

    7.81958HD

    Will Handy grows up in Memphis with his preacher father and his Aunt Hagar. His father intends for him to use his musical gifts only in church, but he can't stay away from the music of the streets and workers. After he writes a theme song for a local...

    St. Louis Blues