Ruby Dee Movies
- 2007
American Gangster
American Gangster7.5912007HD
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...
- 1982
Cat People
Cat People61982HD
After years of separation, Irena Gallier and her minister brother, Paul, reunite in New Orleans. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irena is...
- 2012
A Thousand Words
A Thousand Words6.0922012HD
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...
- 1991
Jungle Fever
Jungle Fever6.371991HD
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...
- 1999
Baby Geniuses
Baby Geniuses4.11999HD
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...
- 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,...
- 1995
Just Cause
Just Cause6.2251995HD
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...
- 1997
A Simple Wish
A Simple Wish5.51997HD
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...
- 1961
A Raisin in the Sun
A Raisin in the Sun7.71961HD
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...
- 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...
- 1967
The Incident
The Incident7.3251967HD
Two hoodlums terrorize the passengers of a late-night New York City subway train.
- 1950
No Way Out
No Way Out6.9231950HD
Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 1968
Uptight
Uptight6.51968HD
Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.
- 2011
The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll
The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll5.42011HD
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...
- 1999
The Unfinished Journey
The Unfinished Journey61999HD
A short about American life and history produced for the millennium New Year's Eve celebration.