Ruby Dee Movies

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1980
    All God's Children

    All God's Children

    All God's Children

    41980HD

    Big city judge Parke Denison is involved in a forced busing dispute at the climax of his long career. The friendship between two families -- one...

    All God's Children
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1971
    The Sheriff

    The Sheriff

    The Sheriff

    61971HD

    A rape case opens racial divisions in a small town. A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate allegations that a wealthy white businessman...

    The Sheriff
  • 2011
    The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll

    The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll

    The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll

    5.42011HD

    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...

    The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll
  • 2000
    A Storm in Summer

    A Storm in Summer

    A Storm in Summer

    5.82000HD

    Set in 1969, Abel Shaddick, a crotchety deli owner, has a grudge against virtually everyone in his upstate New York town of Fairview, particularly...

    A Storm in Summer
  • 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
  • 1999
    The Unfinished Journey

    The Unfinished Journey

    The Unfinished Journey

    61999HD

    A short about American life and history produced for the millennium New Year's Eve celebration.

    The Unfinished Journey
  • 1999
    Passing Glory

    Passing Glory

    Passing Glory

    5.81999HD

    A true story of a priest (Andre Braugher) in New Orleans who formed a group of black players and challenged an all-white prep school basketball team...

    Passing Glory
  • 1999
    Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

    Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

    Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

    7.51999HD

    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...

    Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
  • 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
  • 2013
    Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

    Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

    Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

    102013HD

    The film chronicles the life and revolutionary times of death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.

    Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
  • 1979
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

    4.21979HD

    Based on writer Maya Angelou's eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she...

    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
  • 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
  • 1996
    Captive Heart: The James Mink Story

    Captive Heart: The James Mink Story

    Captive Heart: The James Mink Story

    3.21996HD

    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...

    Captive Heart: The James Mink Story
  • 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