Ruby Dee Movies
- 2007
American Gangster
American Gangster7.592007HD
Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on...
- 1989
Do the Right Thing
Do the Right Thing7.81989HD
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the...
- 2012
A Thousand Words
A Thousand Words6.0942012HD
Jack McCall is a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set his sights on New Age guru Dr. Sinja for his own...
- 1995
Just Cause
Just Cause6.2261995HD
A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the...
- 1982
Cat People
Cat People6.0421982HD
After years of separation, Irena Gallier and her minister brother, Paul, reunite in New Orleans. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irena is...
- 1999
Baby Geniuses
Baby Geniuses4.121999HD
BabyCo is the world's leading manufacturer in baby products. However, what the public doesn't know, is that Drs Kinder and Heep, two of its most...
- 1959
Virgin Island
Virgin Island51959HD
A British woman marries an American writer in spite of her family's disapproval and goes to live with him on a tropical island.
- 1991
Jungle Fever
Jungle Fever6.3691991HD
A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference...
- 1985
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Go Tell It on the Mountain6.4291985HD
This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both...
- 1950
The Jackie Robinson Story
The Jackie Robinson Story6.41950HD
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...
- 1993
Cop & ½
Cop & ½4.4571993HD
When a pint-sized 8-year-old kid witnesses a murder he offers to help the police, if they make him a cop, too. Saddled with this streetwise sidekick,...
- 2004
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years42004HD
Discover how television has reflected the African American experience in this retrospective of the medium's first half-century. Actors, writers and...
- 2007
All About Us
All About Us4.42007HD
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...
- 1961
A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun7.681961HD
Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like...
- 2003
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives5.92003HD
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...
- 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...
- 1972
Buck and the Preacher
Buck and the Preacher6.21972HD
A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
- 1997
A Simple Wish
A Simple Wish5.4881997HD
Murray is a male fairy godmother, and he is trying to help 8-year-old Anabel to fulfil her "simple wish" - that her father Oliver, who is a cab...
- 1967
The Incident
The Incident7.3161967HD
Two hoodlums terrorize the passengers of a late-night New York City subway train.
- 1957
Edge of the City
Edge of the City7.11957HD
An army deserter and a black dock worker join forces against a corrupt manager.