Ruby Dee Movies

  • 1957
    Edge of the City

    Edge of the City

    Edge of the City

    7.11957HD

    An army deserter and a black dock worker join forces against a corrupt manager.

    Edge of the City
  • 1970
    King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

    King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

    King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

    7.31970HD

    Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, the documentary follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1955 to 1968, in his rise from regional...

    King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
  • 1951
    The Tall Target

    The Tall Target

    The Tall Target

    6.81951HD

    A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.

    The Tall Target
  • 2004
    TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

    TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

    TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

    42004HD

    Discover how television has reflected the African American experience in this retrospective of the medium's first half-century. Actors, writers and...

    TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
  • 2011
    Video Girl

    Video Girl

    Video Girl

    6.72011HD

    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...

    Video Girl
  • 1990
    Love at Large

    Love at Large

    Love at Large

    4.81990HD

    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...

    Love at Large
  • 2001
    Feast of All Saints

    Feast of All Saints

    Feast of All Saints

    4.62001HD

    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...

    Feast of All Saints
  • 1963
    The Balcony

    The Balcony

    The Balcony

    5.21963HD

    The Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweeping the nation. Preserved by the Academy Film...

    The Balcony
  • 2006
    No. 2

    No. 2

    No. 2

    62006HD

    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...

    No. 2
  • 1959
    Virgin Island

    Virgin Island

    Virgin Island

    51959HD

    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
  • 1950
    The Jackie Robinson Story

    The Jackie Robinson Story

    The Jackie Robinson Story

    6.41950HD

    Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major...

    The Jackie Robinson Story
  • 1968
    Uptight

    Uptight

    Uptight

    6.51968HD

    Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.

    Uptight
  • 2014
    Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

    Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

    Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

    1.52014HD

    In this open-letter style documentary, Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis' rich lives guide their grandson on his personal quest to master lasting love,...

    Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
  • 2013
    Betty and Coretta

    Betty and Coretta

    Betty and Coretta

    7.1672013HD

    The widows of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and how they carry on as single mothers after the assassination of their husbands.

    Betty and Coretta
  • 1990
    The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson

    The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson

    The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson

    81990HD

    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
  • 2003
    Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

    Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

    Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

    5.92003HD

    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...

    Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
  • 1997
    Sports on the Silver Screen

    Sports on the Silver Screen

    Sports on the Silver Screen

    101997HD

    HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from...

    Sports on the Silver Screen
  • 1996
    Mr. and Mrs. Loving

    Mr. and Mrs. Loving

    Mr. and Mrs. Loving

    5.61996HD

    A moving and uplifting drama about the effects of interracial marriage in the 1960s. Friends since childhood, and loved by both families, this couple...

    Mr. and Mrs. Loving
  • 2009
    America

    America

    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...

    America
  • 1994
    The Stand

    The Stand

    The Stand

    01994HD

    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...

    The Stand