Loading Page
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee(2014)
Status: Released
Date: 2014-06-22
15%
1 Votes
Time: 1h 30m
Overview:
In this open-letter style documentary, Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis' rich lives guide their grandson on his personal quest to master lasting love, conscious art, and undying activism.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
Movie: Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
Top 10 Billed Cast
Ruby Dee
Self
Harry Belafonte
Self
Angela Bassett
Self
Alan Alda
Self
Michelle Alexander
Self
Giancarlo Esposito
Self
Samuel L. Jackson
Self
Danny Glover
Self
Hill Harper
Self
S. Epatha Merkerson
Self
Video Trailer Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
All 1 videos
Life's Essentials With Ruby Dee - Trailer
Similar Movies
65%
Before Stonewall(en)
1984-09-15
New York City's Stonewall Inn is regarded by many as the site of gay and lesbian liberation since it was at this bar that drag queens fought back against police June 27-28, 1969. This documentary uses extensive archival film, movie clips and personal recollections to construct an audiovisual history of the gay community before the Stonewall riots.
100%
Malcolm X: Make It Plain(en)
1994-01-26
Narrated by actress Alfre Woodard, this trenchant, eye-opening doc traces the radical civil rights leader’s life from his tumultuous childhood, through his rise in the ranks of the Nation of Islam, to his 1965 assassination.
72%
The Red Elvis(de)
2007-02-13
A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany after settling there in 1973.
56%
Steal This Film(en)
2006-08-21
Steal This Film focuses on Pirate Bay founders Gottfrid Svartholm, Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde, prominent members of the Swedish filesharing community. The makers claimed that 'Old Media' documentary crews couldn't understand the internet culture that filesharers took part in, and that they saw peer-to-peer organization as a threat to their livelihoods. Because of that, they were determined to accurately represent the filesharing community from within. Notably, Steal This Film was released and distributed, free of charge, through the same filesharing networks that the film documents.
0%
Still We Rise(en)
2022-12-08
50 years on, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy is the oldest continuing protest occupation site in the world. Taking a fresh lens this is a bold dive into a year of protest and revolutionary change for First Nations people.
72%
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution(en)
2020-03-25
Down the road from Woodstock in the early 1970s, a revolution blossomed in a ramshackle summer camp for disabled teenagers, transforming their young lives and igniting a landmark movement.
69%
Coded Bias(en)
2020-11-11
Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all.
70%
Boblo Boats: A Detroit Ferry Tale(en)
2021-09-22
For over 85 years, steamship Ste. Claire transported generations of Detroiters to Boblo Island, an amusement park nestled in the waters between the US and Canada. When the vessel comes under threat of ruin, a doctor, psychic and amusement park fanatic unite to save their beloved steamship from the scrapyard. Interweaving local lore and mythology, "Boblo Boats" explores the whitewashed history of amusement parks and one crew's crusade to bring back the memories.
0%
The Musicians' Green Book: An Enduring Legacy(en)
2022-11-26
Stories and music of Black artists who relied on an underground travel guide to navigate the injustices of racial segregation while on the road. The Negro Travelers’ Green Book was a directory of lodgings, restaurants, and entertainment venues where African Americans were welcomed. Features performances and interviews with vocalists, musicians, activists, historians, and others.
62%
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart(en)
2017-10-14
On March 11, 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s 'A Raisin in the Sun' opened on Broadway and changed the face of American theater forever. As the first-ever black woman to author a play performed on Broadway, she did not shy away from richly drawn characters and unprecedented subject matter. The play attracted record crowds and earned the coveted top prize from the New York Drama Critics’ Circle. While the play is seen as a groundbreaking work of art, the timely story of Hansberry’s life is far less known.
69%
King in the Wilderness(en)
2018-01-22
A chronicle of the final chapters of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, revealing a conflicted leader who faced an onslaught of criticism from both sides of the political spectrum.
77%
Controlling Britney Spears(en)
2021-09-24
Britney Spears has said that her conservatorship had become “an oppressive and controlling tool against her”. This New York Times investigation reveals much of how it worked, including an intense surveillance apparatus that monitored every move she made.
65%
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise(en)
2023-10-06
Since her debut at the age of 18, musician, civil rights campaigner and activist Joan Baez has been on stage for over 60 years. For the now 82-year-old, the personal has always been political, and her friendship with Martin Luther King and her pacifism have shaped her commitment. In this biography that opens with her farewell tour, Baez takes stock in an unsparing fashion and confronts sometimes painful memories.
0%
Two Years, Four Months, A Day(gl)
With no choice, César faced leaving his family behind, quitting his job and joining the Army. In an unprecedented chain of events he became the first conscientious objector in Galicia (Spain) to be put in prison. Now, nearly thirty years later, Two Years, Four Months, A Day takes a look at what made him do it.
67%
Seeing Allred(en)
2018-01-21
Gloria Allred overcame trauma and personal setbacks to become one of the nation’s most famous women’s rights attorneys. Now the feminist firebrand takes on two of the biggest adversaries of her career, Bill Cosby and Donald Trump, as sexual violence allegations grip the nation and keep her in the spotlight.
