Ruby Dee
Birthday: 1922-10-27
Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Biography: Ruby Dee (October 27, 1922 – June 11, 2014) was an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and civil rights activist. She originated the role of "Ruth Younger" in the stage and film versions of A Raisin in the Sun. Her other notable film roles include The Jackie Robinson Story (1950), Do the Right Thing (1989) and American Gangster (2007).
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Do the Right Thing
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggi...
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Jungle Fever
A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's q...
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American Gangster
Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who ...
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America
In "America," Dr. Maureen Brennan, a psychiatrist at a youth treatment center, encounters her newest...
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Cat People
After years of separation, Irena Gallier and her minister brother, Paul, reunite in New Orleans. Whe...
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Love at Large
Inept private investigator Harry Dobbs meets vampish new client Miss Dolan, who wants him to follow ...
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Jazztime Tale
Family - Set in Harlem in 1919, two girls - one white, one black - form a lifelong friendship throug...
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Just Cause
A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a y...
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Cop & ½
When a pint-sized 8-year-old kid witnesses a murder he offers to help the police, if they make him a...
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Buck and the Preacher
A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West....
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No. 2
A matriarch organizes a feast with her family, in which she will name her successor. The heart has g...
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The Tall Target
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train rid...
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Edge of the City
A male army deserter and a black male dock worker join forces against a corrupt manager, in a corrup...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with...
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The Jackie Robinson Story
Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Trac...
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The Incident
Two hoodlums terrorize the passengers of a late-night New York City subway train....
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A Simple Wish
Murray is a male fairy godmother, and he is trying to help 8-year-old Anabel to fulfil her "simple w...
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Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, ...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her throug...
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Politics of Love
Politics makes strange bedfellows, but never stranger than when a sexy, savvy, African-American cons...
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Feast of All Saints
Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free Peop...
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Black Girl
An aspiring dancer and her two wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter....
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Video Girl
Lorie Walker is a small town girl whose big dreams of becoming a dancer come true when she becomes a...
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Decoration Day
A cantankerous widower (Garner) who is virtually living the life of a recluse is forced to rejoin hi...
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Uptight
Set against the backdrop of a community mourning the recent MLK assassination, Black militants build...
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Finding Buck McHenry
Jason Ross is an 11-year-old boy whose love for baseball exceeds his talent for the game. When cut f...
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Mr. and Mrs. Loving
A moving and uplifting drama about the effects of interracial marriage in the 1960s. Friends since c...
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It's Good to Be Alive
This movie details the struggles of former Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella to adapt to life i...
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A Storm in Summer
Set in 1969, Abel Shaddick, a crotchety deli owner, has a grudge against virtually everyone in his u...
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Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
The film chronicles the life and revolutionary times of death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal...
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Betty and Coretta
The widows of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and how they carry on as single mothers after the ass...
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Steam
Three women — a young coed, a forty-something single mother, and one a senior-aged widow — meet in t...
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Based on writer Maya Angelou's eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up i...
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Virgin Island
A British woman marries an American writer in spite of her family's disapproval and goes to live wit...
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Take a Giant Step
After African-American teenager Spence Scott gets expelled from his private school for arguing with ...
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Tuesday Morning Ride
Tuesday Morning Ride is based on the short story "A Summer Tragedy" by Arna Bontemps, a Harlem Renai...
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Gone Are the Days!
A young, idealistic man returns home to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. With him, he b...
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After Goodbye
Award-winning actress Ruby Dee narrates this powerful documentary about the impact of AIDS on the fa...
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Sports on the Silver Screen
HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev...
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That Man of Mine
Featuring the swinging sounds of the all-woman band The International Sweethearts of Rhythm and a yo...
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Deadlock
The murder of a journalist, coming shortly after the killings of a black teenager and a white cop, t...
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Long Day's Journey Into Night
Over the course of one day in August 1912, the family of retired actor James Tyrone grapples with th...
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A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School
For a seventy-year period, when America cared little about the education of African-Americans, and d...
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Passing Glory
A true story of a priest (Andre Braugher) in New Orleans who formed a group of black players and cha...
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The Wall
The story of three items left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall: a pencil holder, a sheriff's ba...
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Countdown at Kusini
An American musician working in Nigeria becomes involved with a patriot hunted by a mercenary in Afr...
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Whitewash
When Helene Angel walks home from school with her older brother she is attacked by a street gang and...
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Taking Back Our Town
A true story about a concerned housewife, Pat Melancon, who tries to block Shintech, a massive Japan...
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The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
A film about the early life of the baseball star in the army, particulary his court-martial for insu...
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A Time To Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner
This intimate, uncannily moving documentary profiles Norma Canner, a pioneer in dance movement thera...
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Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
Tells the story of Sadie and Bessie Delany, two African-American (they preferred "colored") sisters ...
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Neighbours
The Robinson's like to see themselves as liberals. So when their new black neighbours the Kingsbury'...
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No Way Out
Two hoodlum brothers are brought into hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one dies, the other accu...
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Captive Heart: The James Mink Story
James Mink is a black man in Canada who has built a very successful livery business, and enjoys a wh...
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King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
A presentation of key events in the life of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. Beginning w...
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Love in Syncopation
Follows the band's rise in show business, starting with its origins in the Navy during World War II ...
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The Fight Never Ends
Joe Louis, portraying himself, is a good influence on a group of Harlem youths who are tempted to "g...
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Wedding Band
A drama which examines the enduring nature of love between a white man and a black woman in 1918 Sou...
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The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll
In this film, childhood friends come face to face with the demons of rock and roll (lust, drugs, and...
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Making 'Do the Right Thing'
The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing....
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In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema
This documentary captures the sounds and images of a nearly forgotten era in film history when Afric...
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All God's Children
Big city judge Parke Denison is involved in a forced busing dispute at the climax of his long career...
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rura...
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Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks is a 2003 documentary about the life of Academy Award nominated actress B...
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The Ernest Green Story
Follows the story of Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine who were the first blacks to integrat...
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A Thousand Words
Jack McCall is a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set ...
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Zora is My Name!
A celebration of the life of Zora Neale Hurston, who was born at the turn of the 20th Century and gr...
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TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
Discover how television has reflected the African American experience in this retrospective of the m...
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St. Louis Blues
Will Handy grows up in Memphis with his preacher father and his Aunt Hagar. His father intends for h...
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The Balcony
The Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweepi...
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Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'
Panel discussion about the original Broadway production of Lorraine Hansbury's "A Raisin in the Sun....
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Color Adjustment
From Amos 'n' Andy to Nat King Cole, from Roots to The Cosby Show, black people have played many rol...
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Discovering William Greaves
A documentary on the career of William Greaves, featuring Greaves, his wife and co-producer Louise A...
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Baby Geniuses
BabyCo is the world's leading manufacturer in baby products. However, what the public doesn't know, ...
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Poitier's Walter Lee
An interview with film scholar Mia Mask, co-editor of Poitier Revisited....
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To Be Young, Gifted and Black
A mosaic biopic on Lorraine Hansberry, based on the stage play combining her unpublished writings, l...
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The Sheriff
A rape case opens racial divisions in a small town. A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate...
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Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
In this open-letter style documentary, Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis' rich lives guide their grandson on hi...
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On Merit
Examines the history and purpose of the "merit system" used by the U.S. Civil Service in hiring and ...
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The Unfinished Journey
A multimedia short created for the U.S. millennium celebrations, The Unfinished Journey reflects on ...
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Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
A retrospective look at the career of Paul Robeson and his legacy as both an American and a citizen ...
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Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand presents the life and achievements of an extraordinary man. Athlete, sing...
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The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six
In 1963 a group of young Black boys living in Harlem were involved in an incident that earned them t...
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All About Us
Two Hollywood filmmakers attempt to find Morgan Freeman in Mississippi and convince him to star in t...
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Easy to Get
U.S. Army training film about avoiding venereal disease, intended primarily for Black servicemen....
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Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood
Louis Gossett Jr. takes viewers through a special documentary celebration of the groundbreaking achi...
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The Way Back Home
Life affirming spiritual drama about love and loss set in the lush surroundings of Central Florida. ...
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