Ruby Dee Movies
- 1996
Captive Heart: The James Mink Story
Captive Heart: The James Mink Story3.8331996HD
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...
- 1994
The Stand
The Stand01994HD
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...
- 1951
The Tall Target
The Tall Target6.81951HD
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.
- 1999
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years7.51999HD
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...
- 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...
- 1972
Black Girl
Black Girl6.1431972HD
An aspiring dancer and her two wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.
- 1968
Uptight
Uptight6.51968HD
Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.
- 1999
The Unfinished Journey
The Unfinished Journey61999HD
A short about American life and history produced for the millennium New Year's Eve celebration.
- 1963
The Balcony
The Balcony5.21963HD
The Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweeping the nation. Preserved by the Academy Film...
- 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...
- 1970
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis7.0911970HD
Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, the documentary follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1955 to 1968, in his rise from regional...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 2005
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God5.82005HD
A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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.
- 2007
Steam
Steam3.12007HD
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...
- 2013
Betty and Coretta
Betty and Coretta7.1672013HD
The widows of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and how they carry on as single mothers after the assassination of their husbands.