Movies: Ruby Dee
- 1990
Zora is My Name! (1990)
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A celebration of the life of Zora Neale Hurston, who was born at the turn of the 20th Century and grew to be an important voice with her written portrayals of Black American life in the rural south of the 1930's and 40's, and the stories, songs and f...
- 1959
Virgin Island (1959)
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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....
- 2003
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives (2003)
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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...
- 2011
Video Girl (2011)
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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 learns the hard way that life in front of the camera is not as glamorous as it seems....
- 2007
Steam (2007)
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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....
- 2007
All About Us (2007)
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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....
- 1989
Making 'Do the Right Thing' (1989)
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The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing....
- 1990
Love at Large (1990)
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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....
- 1990
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson (1990)
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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....
- 2009
America (2009)
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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...
- 1996
Captive Heart: The James Mink Story (1996)
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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...
- 1993
The Ernest Green Story (1993)
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Follows the story of Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine who were the first blacks to integrate into an all white school....
- 1946
That Man of Mine (1946)
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Featuring the swinging sounds of the all-woman band The International Sweethearts of Rhythm and a young Ruby Dee, the 1946 musical showcases tenderness in romance and community through a series of musical numbers. The loosely connected plot follows f...
- 1998
A Time To Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner (1998)
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This intimate, uncannily moving documentary profiles Norma Canner, a pioneer in dance movement therapy, who found in dance a way to help people who had been discarded by society. The film traces the evolution of Norma's career from Broadway actress i...
- 2014
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee (2014)
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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....
- 2001
Feast of All Saints (2001)
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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....
- 1998
The Wall (1998)
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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....
- 1963
The Balcony (1963)
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The Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweeping the nation. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010....
- 1969
Deadlock (1969)
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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 prevent a riot, Lieutenant Sam Danforth and District Attorney Leslie Washburn are determined to find the ...
- 2001
Taking Back Our Town (2001)
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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 ...