Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

2014-06-22| 90 min

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.

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Ruby Dee

Harry Belafonte

Angela Bassett

Alan Alda

Michelle Alexander

Giancarlo Esposito

Samuel L. Jackson

Danny Glover

Hill Harper

S. Epatha Merkerson

Spike Lee

Phylicia Rashād

Cornel West

Malik Yoba

Guy Davis

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