Movies: Ruby Dee

  • 2002
    Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'

    Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun' (2002)

    Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'

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    Panel discussion about the original Broadway production of Lorraine Hansbury's "A Raisin in the Sun."...

    Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'
  • 1976
    Countdown at Kusini

    Countdown at Kusini (1976)

    Countdown at Kusini

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    An American musician working in Nigeria becomes involved with a patriot hunted by a mercenary in Africa....

    Countdown at Kusini
  • 1947
    Easy to Get

    Easy to Get (1947)

    Easy to Get

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    U.S. Army training film about avoiding venereal disease, intended primarily for Black servicemen....

    Easy to Get
  • 1946
    Love in Syncopation

    Love in Syncopation (1946)

    Love in Syncopation

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    Follows the band's rise in show business, starting with its origins in the Navy during World War II and their struggle to make it....

    Love in Syncopation
  • 1993
    After Goodbye

    After Goodbye (1993)

    After Goodbye

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    Award-winning actress Ruby Dee narrates this powerful documentary about the impact of AIDS on the families, friends and members of the acclaimed Turtle Creek Chorale. In the past decade, 145 member of the Chorale have died, most from HIV and AIDS. A...

    After Goodbye
  • 2018
    Poitier's Walter Lee

    Poitier's Walter Lee (2018)

    Poitier's Walter Lee

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    An interview with film scholar Mia Mask, co-editor of Poitier Revisited....

    Poitier's Walter Lee
  • 1983
    Papua New Guinea: Anthropology on Trial

    Papua New Guinea: Anthropology on Trial (1983)

    Papua New Guinea: Anthropology on Trial

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    "Papua New Guinea: Anthropology on Trial" was a 1983 episode of the PBS science documentary series NOVA. It explored the field of anthropology, particularly in the context of Papua New Guinea, from the perspective of the people being studied....

    Papua New Guinea: Anthropology on Trial
  • 1991
    Jazztime Tale

    Jazztime Tale (1991)

    Jazztime Tale

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    Family - Set in Harlem in 1919, two girls - one white, one black - form a lifelong friendship through a chance encounter and the jazztime music of young "Fats" Waller....

    Jazztime Tale