Movies: Ruby Dee

  • 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
  • 2001
    Feast of All Saints

    Feast of All Saints (2001)

    Feast of All Saints

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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....

    Feast of All Saints
  • 1974
    Wedding Band

    Wedding Band (1974)

    Wedding Band

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    A drama which examines the enduring nature of love between a white man and a black woman in 1918 South Carolina....

    Wedding Band
  • 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
  • 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
    Take a Giant Step

    Take a Giant Step (1959)

    Take a Giant Step

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    After African-American teenager Spence Scott gets expelled from his private school for arguing with a teacher, he turns to his grandmother for advice. Spence, who lives in a genteel white area and has mostly white friends, feels like an outsider. He ...

    Take a Giant Step
  • 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'

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

    Making 'Do the Right Thing'
  • 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
  • 1990
    Decoration Day

    Decoration Day (1990)

    Decoration Day

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    A cantankerous widower (Garner) who is virtually living the life of a recluse is forced to rejoin his community when his Godchild (Skaggs) gets in trouble and a childhood friend (Cobbs), a black tenant farmer, refuses to belatedly accept a Congressio...

    Decoration Day
  • 2007
    All About Us

    All About Us (2007)

    All About Us

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    Two Hollywood filmmakers attempt to find Morgan Freeman in Mississippi and convince him to star in their next movie. When life gets in their way they soon discover what matters to them most....

    All About Us
  • 1999
    The Unfinished Journey

    The Unfinished Journey (1999)

    The Unfinished Journey

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

    The Unfinished Journey
  • 2000
    Finding Buck McHenry

    Finding Buck McHenry (2000)

    Finding Buck McHenry

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    Jason Ross is an 11-year-old boy whose love for baseball exceeds his talent for the game. When cut from his little league team, Jason's undefeatable spirit leads him to try and create an expansion team. In searching for a new coach, Jason comes to be...

    Finding Buck McHenry
  • 1954
    Go Man Go

    Go Man Go (1954)

    Go Man Go

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    The story of Abe Saperstein and the creation of the Harlem Globetrotters....

    Go Man Go
  • 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
  • 1958
    St. Louis Blues

    St. Louis Blues (1958)

    St. Louis Blues

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    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
  • 2009
    America

    America (2009)

    America

    3.52009HD

    In "America," Dr. Maureen Brennan, a psychiatrist at a youth treatment center, encounters her newest patient, a bi-racial boy named America. Through their sessions, Dr. Brennan helps America come to terms with his roller-coaster life, which began whe...

    America
  • 1985
    Go Tell It on the Mountain

    Go Tell It on the Mountain (1985)

    Go Tell It on the Mountain

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    This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both salvation and understanding and of a young boy struggling to earn the approval of a self-righteous and often...

    Go Tell It on the Mountain
  • 2014
    Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

    Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee (2014)

    Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

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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....

    Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
  • 1974
    It's Good to Be Alive

    It's Good to Be Alive (1974)

    It's Good to Be Alive

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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....

    It's Good to Be Alive