Movies: Ruby Dee
- 1998
The Wall (1998)
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The story of three items left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall: a pencil holder, a sheriff's badge, and an electric guitar. Each item connects the living with the dead and are left as either memorials or to heal the wounds of war....
- 1990
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson (1990)
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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....
- 1959
Virgin Island (1959)
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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....
- 1999
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (1999)
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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...
- 2007
Steam (2007)
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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....
- 2001
Taking Back Our Town (2001)
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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 ...
- 1999
The Unfinished Journey (1999)
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A short about American life and history produced for the millennium New Year's Eve celebration....
- 2014
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee (2014)
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In this open-letter style documentary, Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis' rich lives guide their grandson on his personal quest to master lasting love, conscious art, and undying activism....
- 1990
Love at Large (1990)
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Vampish miss Dolan hires hardboiled P.I. Harry Dobbs to tail her shady boyfriend. Harry realizes that the man leads a double life but then his client disappears. Harry teams up with his own tail, P.I. Stella Wynkowski, to clear things up....
- 1957
Edge of the City (1957)
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An army deserter and a black dock worker join forces against a corrupt manager....
- 1968
Uptight (1968)
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Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own....
- 1996
Captive Heart: The James Mink Story (1996)
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James Mink is a black man in Canada who has built a very successful livery business, and enjoys a white wife and a beautiful daughter, Mary. An excellent match is arranged with an American businessman, but when he takes his new wife Mary across the b...
- 1997
Sports on the Silver Screen (1997)
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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...
- 2013
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal (2013)
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The film chronicles the life and revolutionary times of death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal....
- 1989
Making 'Do the Right Thing' (1989)
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The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing....
- 1994
The Stand (1994)
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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....
- 1974
It's Good to Be Alive (1974)
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This movie details the struggles of former Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella to adapt to life in a wheelchair following his crippling automobile accident in 1959. Cinematographer Ted Voigtlander was Emmy-nominated....
- 1992
Color Adjustment (1992)
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From Amos 'n' Andy to Nat King Cole, from Roots to The Cosby Show, black people have played many roles on primetime television. Brilliantly weaving clips from classic TV shows with commentary from TV producers, black actors and scholars, Marlon Riggs...
- 2001
Feast of All Saints (2001)
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Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Colour, a dazzling yet damned class caught between the world of white privilege and black oppression....
- 2003
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives (2003)
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When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era survivors were transcribed and preserved by the Library of Congress. These first-person anecdotes, ranging from t...