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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).
Total trailers found: 92
16 March 1997
HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from the earliest silent films until the nineties.
27 January 1954
The story of Abe Saperstein and the creation of the Harlem Globetrotters.
02 November 2007
Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.
10 February 1998
Louis Gossett Jr. takes viewers through a special documentary celebration of the groundbreaking achievements of African-American performers and their contributions to Hollywood filmmaking.
28 April 1979
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 and her older brother were raised by their grandmother after the divorce of their parents.
25 September 2018
An interview with film scholar Mia Mask, co-editor of Poitier Revisited.
01 January 2004
Discover how television has reflected the African American experience in this retrospective of the medium's first half-century.
24 February 1999
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand presents the life and achievements of an extraordinary man. Athlete, singer, and scholar, Robeson was also a charismatic champion of the rights of the poor working man, the disfranchised and people of color.
07 December 1998
This intimate, uncannily moving documentary profiles Norma Canner, a pioneer in dance movement therapy, who found in dance a way to help people who had been discarded by society.
10 December 2001
A true story about a concerned housewife, Pat Melancon, who tries to block Shintech, a massive Japanese petrochemical conglomerate, from building a plant in her toxic township already known as "cancer alley".
17 January 1993
Follows the story of Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine who were the first blacks to integrate into an all white school.
01 January 1980
In 1963 a group of young Black boys living in Harlem were involved in an incident that earned them the nickname "The Harlem Six.
04 January 1957
A male army deserter and a black male dock worker join forces against a corrupt manager, in a corrupt environment, and as their connection blossoms they must face the oppressive and morally decaying city they live in.
05 August 2011
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 compels them to face their past, present, and future.
07 March 2012
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.
14 June 1989
Sal is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors.
16 February 2006
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.
14 April 1996
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.
02 April 1982
After years of separation, Irena Gallier and her minister brother, Paul, reunite in New Orleans. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irena is drawn to the cat – and zoo curator Oliver to her.
07 August 1959
A British woman marries an American writer in spite of her family's disapproval and goes to live with him on a tropical island.
16 May 1950
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 leagues.
01 November 1983
"Papua New Guinea: Anthropology on Trial" was a 1983 episode of the PBS science documentary series NOVA.
22 February 1969
The murder of a journalist, coming shortly after the killings of a black teenager and a white cop, threatens to inflame passions in the city.
15 September 2007
This documentary captures the sounds and images of a nearly forgotten era in film history when African American filmmakers and studios created “race movies” exclusively for black audiences.
14 February 1990
A celebration of the life of Zora Neale Hurston, who was born at the turn of the 20th Century and grew to be an important voice with her written portrayals of Black American life in the rural south of the 1930's and 40's, and the stories, songs and folklore that were her heritage and inspiration.
06 March 2005
A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the morals of her small town.
17 March 1972
A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
07 June 1991
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 would make an already taboo relationship even worse.
11 July 1997
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 driver, would win the leading role in a Broadway musical.
17 February 1995
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 horrific murder of a child.
16 August 1950
Two hoodlum brothers are brought into hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one dies, the other accuses their Black doctor of murder.
16 August 1994
When Helene Angel walks home from school with her older brother she is attacked by a street gang and painted white.
20 January 1972
A mosaic biopic on Lorraine Hansberry, based on the stage play combining her unpublished writings, letters, and diaries.
31 December 1999
A multimedia short created for the U.S. millennium celebrations, The Unfinished Journey reflects on America’s history and spirit through six chapters—immigration, war, culture, civil rights, and innovation.
09 March 1990
Inept private investigator Harry Dobbs meets vampish new client Miss Dolan, who wants him to follow her abusive lover.
12 March 1999
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 brilliant scientists, are tirelessly working in complete secrecy to crack the indecipherable code to 'baby talk': a highly sophisticated language, and the key to the secrets of the universe.
02 April 1993
When a pint-sized 8-year-old kid witnesses a murder he offers to help the police, if they make him a cop, too.
18 January 2000
Set in 1969, Abel Shaddick, a crotchety deli owner, has a grudge against virtually everyone in his upstate New York town of Fairview, particularly against his slacker nephew Stanley who lives behind the shop.
15 October 1990
A film about the early life of the baseball star in the army, particulary his court-martial for insubordination regarding segragation.
16 April 1976
An American musician working in Nigeria becomes involved with a patriot hunted by a mercenary in Africa.
01 January 1972
Examines the history and purpose of the "merit system" used by the U.S. Civil Service in hiring and promoting Federal Government workers.
24 March 1970
A presentation of key events in the life of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. Beginning with the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, MLK is followed through major steps in his struggle to promote racial equality.
05 November 1967
Two hoodlums terrorize the passengers of a late-night New York City subway train.
16 April 2000
Jason Ross is an 11-year-old boy whose love for baseball exceeds his talent for the game. When cut from his little league team, Jason's undefeatable spirit leads him to try and create an expansion team.
17 August 1951
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.
28 April 1980
Big city judge Parke Denison is involved in a forced busing dispute at the climax of his long career.
09 August 1963
A young, idealistic man returns home to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. With him, he brings his fiance, Lutiebelle, in hopes of convincing the plantation owner that she is really his cousin in order to secure the family inheritance.
01 January 1995
Tuesday Morning Ride is based on the short story "A Summer Tragedy" by Arna Bontemps, a Harlem Renaissance writer.
31 January 2007
A retrospective look at the career of Paul Robeson and his legacy as both an American and a citizen of the world.
26 August 2011
Politics makes strange bedfellows, but never stranger than when a sexy, savvy, African-American conservative Republican reluctantly falls for his Democratic counterpart: a beautiful Indian-American Obama campaign volunteer.
03 November 1989
The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing.
28 May 1961
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 an imprisoned man.
24 April 1974
A drama which examines the enduring nature of love between a white man and a black woman in 1918 South Carolina.
11 November 2001
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 between the world of white privilege and black oppression.
22 February 1974
This movie details the struggles of former Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella to adapt to life in a wheelchair following his crippling automobile accident in 1959.
11 October 2011
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.
09 November 1972
An aspiring dancer and her two wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.
01 December 1959
After African-American teenager Spence Scott gets expelled from his private school for arguing with a teacher, he turns to his grandmother for advice.
01 January 1946
Featuring the swinging sounds of the all-woman band The International Sweethearts of Rhythm and a young Ruby Dee, the 1946 musical showcases tenderness in romance and community through a series of musical numbers.
01 April 2006
Life affirming spiritual drama about love and loss set in the lush surroundings of Central Florida. Spencer Krane has returned to the town where he was raised.
