Ruby Dee
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).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 5.18 |
| Birthday | 1922-10-27 |
| Place of Birth | Cleveland, Ohio, USA |
| Also Known As | Ruby Ann Wallace, |
1989
Do the Right Thing
7.749/1794
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzer...
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Do the Right Thing
1991
Jungle Fever
6.4/287
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 wo...
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Jungle Fever
2007
American Gangster
7.589/5509
Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem dist...
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American Gangster
2009
America
3.5/2
In "America," Dr. Maureen Brennan, a psychiatrist at a youth treatment center, encounters her newest patient, a bi-racial boy named America. Through t...
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America
1982
Cat People
6.1/512
After years of separation, Irena Gallier and her minister brother, Paul, reunite in New Orleans. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irena is draw...
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Cat People
1990
Love at Large
4.8/27
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...
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Love at Large
1991
Jazztime Tale
0/0
Family - Set in Harlem in 1919, two girls - one white, one black - form a lifelong friendship through a chance encounter and the jazztime music of you...
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Jazztime Tale
1995
Just Cause
6.2/563
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...
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Just Cause
1993
Cop and ½
4.5/148
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,...
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Cop and ½
1972
Buck and the Preacher
6.2/55
A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
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Buck and the Preacher
2006
No. 2
6/3
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. There are no part...
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No. 2
1951
The Tall Target
6.8/39
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.
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The Tall Target
1957
Edge of the City
7.1/57
An army deserter and a black dock worker join forces against a corrupt manager.
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Edge of the City
1961
A Raisin in the Sun
7.7/127
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 a...
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A Raisin in the Sun
1950
The Jackie Robinson Story
6.4/18
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 l...
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The Jackie Robinson Story
1967
The Incident
7.3/74
Two hoodlums terrorize the passengers of a late-night New York City subway train.
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The Incident
1997
A Simple Wish
5.5/165
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...
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A Simple Wish
2003
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
5.9/5
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 wer...
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Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2005
Their Eyes Were Watching God
5.8/32
A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the mor...
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
2011
Politics of Love
4.5/2
Politics makes strange bedfellows, but never stranger than when a sexy, savvy, African-American conservative Republican reluctantly falls for his Demo...
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Politics of Love
2001
Feast of All Saints
4.6/7
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 b...
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Feast of All Saints
1972
Black Girl
7/6
An aspiring dancer and her two wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.
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Black Girl
2011
Video Girl
6.7/15
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. But she soon lea...
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Video Girl
1990
Decoration Day
7.3/7
A cantankerous widower (Garner) who is virtually living the life of a recluse is forced to rejoin his community when his Godchild (Skaggs) gets in tro...
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Decoration Day
1968
Uptight
6.5/14
Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.
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Uptight
2000
Finding Buck McHenry
0/0
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 s...
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Finding Buck McHenry
1996
Mr. and Mrs. Loving
5.6/7
A moving and uplifting drama about the effects of interracial marriage in the 1960s. Friends since childhood, and loved by both families, this couple...
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Mr. and Mrs. Loving
1974
It's Good to Be Alive
6.6/4
This movie details the struggles of former Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella to adapt to life in a wheelchair following his crippling automobile...
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It's Good to Be Alive
2000
A Storm in Summer
5.8/4
Set in 1969, Abel Shaddick, a crotchety deli owner, has a grudge against virtually everyone in his upstate New York town of Fairview, particularly aga...
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A Storm in Summer
2013
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
10/1
The film chronicles the life and revolutionary times of death row political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.
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Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
2013
Betty and Coretta
7.2/11
The widows of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and how they carry on as single mothers after the assassination of their husbands.
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Betty and Coretta
2007
Steam
3.1/5
Three women — a young coed, a forty-something single mother, and one a senior-aged widow — meet in the sauna of the local gym, where they gradually ge...
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Steam
1979
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
4.2/8
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...
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1959
Virgin Island
5/2
A British woman marries an American writer in spite of her family's disapproval and goes to live with him on a tropical island.
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Virgin Island
1959
Take a Giant Step
5.2/6
This pioneering film in the history of African-American cinema, released two years before "A Raisin In The Sun", is the coming-of-age story of a Black...
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Take a Giant Step
1995
Tuesday Morning Ride
6.3/3
Tuesday Morning Ride is based on the short story "A Summer Tragedy" by Arna Bontemps, a Harlem Renaissance writer. Set in the 1930s, the story depicts...
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Tuesday Morning Ride
1963
Gone Are the Days!
6.7/3
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 convinci...
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Gone Are the Days!
1993
After Goodbye
0/0
Award-winning actress Ruby Dee narrates this powerful documentary about the impact of AIDS on the families, friends and members of the acclaimed Turtl...
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After Goodbye
1997
Sports on the Silver Screen
10/1
HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from t...
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Sports on the Silver Screen
1946
That Man of Mine
0/0
Featuring the swinging sounds of the all-woman band The International Sweethearts of Rhythm and a young Ruby Dee, the 1946 musical showcases tendernes...
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That Man of Mine
1969
Deadlock
0/0
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. To preve...
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Deadlock
1982
Long Day's Journey Into Night
6/1
Over the course of one day in August 1912, the family of retired actor James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of his wife Mary, the illness...
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Long Day's Journey Into Night
2009
A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School
7.3/3
For a seventy-year period, when America cared little about the education of African-Americans, and discrimination was law and custom, The Bordentown S...
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A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School
1999
Passing Glory
5.8/4
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 i...
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Passing Glory
1998
The Wall
5.7/3
The story of three items left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall: a pencil holder, a sheriff's badge, and an electric guitar. Each item connects th...
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The Wall
1976
Countdown at Kusini
0/0
An American musician working in Nigeria becomes involved with a patriot hunted by a mercenary in Africa.
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Countdown at Kusini
1994
Whitewash
6/1
When Helene Angel walks home from school with her older brother she is attacked by a street gang and painted white. The effect on Helene and her famil...
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Whitewash
2001
Taking Back Our Town
0/0
A true story about a concerned housewife, Pat Melancon, who tries to block Shintech, a massive Japanese petrochemical conglomerate, from building a pl...
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Taking Back Our Town
1990
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
8/2
A film about the early life of the baseball star in the army, particulary his court-martial for insubordination regarding segragation.
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The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
1998
A Time To Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner
0/0
This intimate, uncannily moving documentary profiles Norma Canner, a pioneer in dance movement therapy, who found in dance a way to help people who ha...
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A Time To Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner
1999
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
7.5/4
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 o...
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Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
1966
Neighbours
0/0
The Robinson's like to see themselves as liberals. So when their new black neighbours the Kingsbury's move into their apartment block they are invited...
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Neighbours
1950
No Way Out
6.866/93
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.
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No Way Out
1996
Captive Heart: The James Mink Story
3.2/2
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 excell...
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Captive Heart: The James Mink Story
1970
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
7.3/10
Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, the documentary follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1955 to 1968, in his rise from regional activi...
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King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1946
Love in Syncopation
0/0
Follows the band's rise in show business, starting with its origins in the Navy during World War II and their struggle to make it.
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Love in Syncopation
1948
The Fight Never Ends
0/0
Joe Louis, portraying himself, is a good influence on a group of Harlem youths who are tempted to "go bad" by a gangster known as Caper, an older brot...
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The Fight Never Ends
1948
What a Guy
0/0
Mantan Moreland's comedy feature.
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What a Guy
1974
Wedding Band
0/0
A drama which examines the enduring nature of love between a white man and a black woman in 1918 South Carolina.
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Wedding Band
2011
The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll
5.4/6
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 compel...
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The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll
1989
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
6.714/7
The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing.
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Making 'Do the Right Thing'
2007
In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema
6.5/4
This documentary captures the sounds and images of a nearly forgotten era in film history when African American filmmakers and studios created “race m...
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In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema
1980
All God's Children
4/1
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 white...
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All God's Children
1985
Go Tell It on the Mountain
5/4
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 salvatio...
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
2004
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
0/0
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks is a 2003 documentary about the life of Academy Award nominated actress Beah Richards. Directed by Lisa Gay Hamilton, it wo...
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Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
1993
The Ernest Green Story
6.9/6
Follows the story of Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine who were the first blacks to integrate into an all white school.
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The Ernest Green Story
2012
A Thousand Words
6.093/1323
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 s...
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A Thousand Words
1990
Zora is My Name!
0/0
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 portr...
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Zora is My Name!
2004
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
4/1
Discover how television has reflected the African American experience in this retrospective of the medium's first half-century. Actors, writers and hi...
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TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
1958
St. Louis Blues
7.8/4
Will Handy grows up in Memphis with his preacher father and his Aunt Hagar. His father intends for him to use his musical gifts only in church, but he...
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St. Louis Blues
1963
The Balcony
5.2/16
The Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweeping the nation. Preserved by the Academy Film Arch...
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The Balcony
2002
Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'
0/0
Panel discussion about the original Broadway production of Lorraine Hansbury's "A Raisin in the Sun."
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Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'
1992
Color Adjustment
6.9/10
From Amos 'n' Andy to Nat King Cole, from Roots to The Cosby Show, black people have played many roles on primetime television. Brilliantly weaving cl...
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Color Adjustment
1954
Go Man Go
5.7/3
The story of Abe Saperstein and the creation of the Harlem Globetrotters.
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Go Man Go
2006
Discovering William Greaves
0/0
A documentary on the career of William Greaves, featuring Greaves, his wife and co-producer Louise Archambault, actor Ruby Dee, filmmaker St. Clair Bo...
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Discovering William Greaves
1999
Baby Geniuses
4.106/382
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 brill...
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Baby Geniuses
2018
Poitier's Walter Lee
0/0
An interview with film scholar Mia Mask, co-editor of Poitier Revisited.
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Poitier's Walter Lee
1972
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
5/1
A mosaic biopic on Lorraine Hansberry, based on the stage play combining her unpublished writings, letters, and diaries.
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To Be Young, Gifted and Black
1971
The Sheriff
6/5
A rape case opens racial divisions in a small town. A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate allegations that a wealthy white businessman rape...
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The Sheriff
2014
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
1.5/1
In this open-letter style documentary, Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis' rich lives guide their grandson on his personal quest to master lasting love, conscious...
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Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
1972
On Merit
0/0
Examines the history and purpose of the "merit system" used by the U.S. Civil Service in hiring and promoting Federal Government workers. Shows how th...
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On Merit
1999
The Unfinished Journey
6/2
A short about American life and history produced for the millennium New Year's Eve celebration.
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The Unfinished Journey
2007
Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
0/0
A retrospective look at the career of Paul Robeson and his legacy as both an American and a citizen of the world.
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Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
1999
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
0/0
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand presents the life and achievements of an extraordinary man. Athlete, singer, and scholar, Robeson was also a charismatic ch...
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Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
1980
The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six
0/0
In 1963 a group of young Black boys living in Harlem were involved in an incident that earned them the nickname "The Harlem Six." Intent on protecting...
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The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six
2007
All About Us
4.4/6
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...
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All About Us
1947
Easy to Get
0/0
U.S. Army training film about avoiding venereal disease, intended primarily for Black servicemen.
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Easy to Get
1998
Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood
0/0
Louis Gossett Jr. takes viewers through a special documentary celebration of the groundbreaking achievements of African-American performers and their...
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