Ruby Dee Movies
- 1990
Love at Large
Love at Large4.91990HD
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...
- 1997
A Simple Wish
A Simple Wish5.4881997HD
Murray is a male fairy godmother, and he is trying to help 8-year-old Anabel to fulfil her "simple wish" - that her father Oliver, who is a cab...
- 2006
No. 2
No. 262006HD
A matriarch organizes a feast with her family, in which she will name her successor. The heart has gone out of Nanna Maria's family. There are no...
- 1997
Sports on the Silver Screen
Sports on the Silver Screen101997HD
HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from...
- 1957
Edge of the City
Edge of the City7.0951957HD
An army deserter and a black dock worker join forces against a corrupt manager.
- 2003
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives5.92003HD
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...
- 2013
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal102013HD
The film chronicles the life and revolutionary times of death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.
- 2001
Feast of All Saints
Feast of All Saints4.1882001HD
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...
- 2000
A Storm in Summer
A Storm in Summer5.82000HD
Set in 1969, Abel Shaddick, a crotchety deli owner, has a grudge against virtually everyone in his upstate New York town of Fairview, particularly...
- 2011
Video Girl
Video Girl6.32011HD
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...
- 2011
The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll
The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll5.42011HD
In this film, childhood friends come face to face with the demons of rock and roll (lust, drugs, and passion) on a cross-country road trip that...
- 1971
The Sheriff
The Sheriff61971HD
A rape case opens racial divisions in a small town. A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate allegations that a wealthy white businessman...
- 1974
It's Good to Be Alive
It's Good to Be Alive6.61974HD
This movie details the struggles of former Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella to adapt to life in a wheelchair following his crippling automobile...
- 1990
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson71990HD
A film about the early life of the baseball star in the army, particulary his court-martial for insubordination regarding segragation.
- 1998
The Wall
The Wall5.71998HD
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...
- 1990
Decoration Day
Decoration Day71990HD
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...
- 1972
Black Girl
Black Girl6.1431972HD
An aspiring dancer and her two wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.
- 1969
Deadlock
Deadlock01969HD
The murder of a journalist, coming shortly after the killings of a black teenager and a white cop, threatens to inflame passions in the city. To...
- 1993
The Ernest Green Story
The Ernest Green Story6.91993HD
Follows the story of Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine who were the first blacks to integrate into an all white school.
- 2014
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee1.52014HD
In this open-letter style documentary, Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis' rich lives guide their grandson on his personal quest to master lasting love,...