Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
This Academy Award-winning documentary short Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist, narrated by Sidney Poitier, traces the career of Paul Robeson through his activism and his socially charged performances of…
Shoot to Kill
When a cunning murderer vanishes into the rugged mountains of the Pacific Northwest, pursuing FBI agent Warren Stantin must exchange familiar city streets for unknown wilderness trails. Completely out of…
A Warm December
Widower Dr. Matt Younger and his daughter go to London for a month of dirt-bike racing. While there, Dr. Younger is surprised by finding himself attracted to Catherine, a charming…
Cry, the Beloved Country
In the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and…
For Love of Ivy
When it was released in 1968, For Love of Ivy was the first mainstream Hollywood film to depict a mature romantic relationship between a black man and woman. Sidney Poitier…
Mandela and de Klerk
Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine both received Emmy nominations for their performances in this made-for-TV movie. The plot follows Nelson Mandela’s 27-year struggle to end apartheid.
Mr. SOUL!
On the heels of the Civil Rights Movement, one fearless black pioneer reconceived a Harlem Renaissance for a new era, ushering giants and rising stars of black American culture onto…
Nationtime
A report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathered Black voices from across the political spectrum, among them Jesse Jackson,…
Something of Value
As Kenya’s Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British colonist, find themselves on opposite sides of…
Pressure Point
An African-American prison psychiatrist finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate with bigoted Nazi tendencies.
Blackboard Jungle
Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadier makes various attempts to engage the…
Brother John
An enigmatic man (Sidney Poitier) returns to his Alabama hometown as his sister is dying of cancer and incites the suspicion of notable town officials.
Band of Angels
Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widower father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and he sends her to…
Buck and the Preacher
A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
The Red Ball Express
August 1944: proceeding with the invasion of France, Patton’s Third Army has advanced so far toward Paris that it cannot be supplied. To keep up the momentum, Allied HQ establishes…
A Piece of the Action
How does retired cop Joshua Burke (James Earl Jones) get two career criminals, Manny Durrell (Sidney Poitier) and Dave Anderson (Bill Cosby), to follow the straight and narrow? Con them…
Porgy and Bess
Set in the early 1900s in the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina, which serves as home to a black fishing community, the story focuses on the titular…
No Way Out
The Biddle brothers, shot while robbing a gas station, are taken to the prison ward of the County Hospital; Ray Biddle, a rabid racist, wants no treatment from black resident…
The Defiant Ones
Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other.
A Raisin in the Sun
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….
A Patch of Blue
A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.
Let’s Do It Again
Uptown Saturday Night
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Matt and Christina Drayton really are a few whose perspectives are challenged when their son brings home a fiancé who’s black.
To Sir, with Love
Duel at Diablo
The Slender Thread
The Long Ships
With this elaborately mounted seafaring experience, Rolfe is a Viking chief with all the cunning and devious mind of a pirate. Rolfe informs others of “The Mother of Voices,” a…
Lilies of the Field
Paris Blues
Ram Bowen and Eddie Cook are two expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris in which, unlike America at the time, Jazz musicians are celebrated and racism is a non-issue. If…
Little Nikita
Roy Parmenter is a FBI agent in San Diego; 20 years back his spouse was murdered by an undercover spy, filmed Scuba, at large. Scuba is currently attempting to ditch…
Sneakers
When dark U.S. intelligence representatives blackmail a reformed computer programmer and his bizarre group of safety specialists to sneaking a code-breaking ‘black box’ out of a Soviet-funded genius, they discover…
To Sir, with Love II
Mark Thackeray (Poitier) is a West Indian, who at the 1967 movie had obtained instructing at a London East End faculty. He also spent twenty years ten and teaching in…
The Jackal
Hired with a potent member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting which abandoned his brother deceased, a psychopathic hitman known simply as The Jackal demonstrates an elusive…
Sing Your Song
Most individuals know the lasting legacy of Harry Belafonte, the entertainer. This movie finds his important contribution to and his management within the civil rights motion in America and to…