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Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

Actors:  Ruby Dee, Harry Belafonte, Angela Bassett, Alan Alda, Michelle Alexander, Giancarlo Esposito Directors:  Muta’Ali

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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