Movies: Ruby Dee

  • 1998
    The Wall

    The Wall (1998)

    The Wall

    5.71998HD

    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....

    The Wall
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2007
    Steam

    Steam (2007)

    Steam

    3.12007HD

    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2014
    Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

    Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee (2014)

    Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

    1.52014HD

    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....

    Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
  • 1990
    Love at Large

    Love at Large (1990)

    Love at Large

    4.91990HD

    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....

    Love at Large
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1996
    Captive Heart: The James Mink Story

    Captive Heart: The James Mink Story (1996)

    Captive Heart: The James Mink Story

    3.81996HD

    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...

    Captive Heart: The James Mink Story
  • 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
  • 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

    102013HD

    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
  • 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'
  • 1994
    The Stand

    The Stand (1994)

    The Stand

    01994HD

    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
  • 1974
    It's Good to Be Alive

    It's Good to Be Alive (1974)

    It's Good to Be Alive

    6.61974HD

    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....

    It's Good to Be Alive
  • 1992
    Color Adjustment

    Color Adjustment (1992)

    Color Adjustment

    6.91992HD

    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...

    Color Adjustment
  • 2001
    Feast of All Saints

    Feast of All Saints (2001)

    Feast of All Saints

    4.62001HD

    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....

    Feast of All Saints
  • 2003
    Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

    Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives (2003)

    Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

    5.92003HD

    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...

    Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives