Movies: Sidney Poitier

The man called Obam struggles with the increasingly hostile forces facing each other in a colonial African country. The African natives want their land and lives back from the British colonists. Obam's motives are questioned by his own people, in par...

A British woman marries an American writer in spite of her family's disapproval and goes to live with him on a tropical island....

A gang of black militants plots to rob a factory to finance their "revolutionary struggle."...

Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier travel down memory lane to see what life was like back in the 1920s. Harry Belafonte introduces this musical, written by poet and playwright Langston Hughes, which pays tribute to Harlem in the 1920's. Sidney Poitie...

Documentary profile of musician and producer Quincy Jones...

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...

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, Dick Gregory, Coretta Scott King, Richard Hatcher, Amiri Bar...

Documentary exploring the career of noted film directer William A. Wellman....

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....

Most people know the lasting legacy of Harry Belafonte, the entertainer. This film unearths his significant contribution to and his leadership in the civil rights movement in America and to social justice globally....

The story of Abe Saperstein and the creation of the Harlem Globetrotters....

A man must cope with the loss of his wife and the obsolescence of his job before finding redemption by becoming a role model to an equally lost 13-year-old....

"A great many conundrums." An assemblage of found footage....

A struggling songwriter abandons his girlfriend for a flashy woman after landing a hit....

Behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of ‘Sneakers’ (1992)....

An old man and a young boy who live in the southeastern Mississippi swamps are brought together by the love of a dog....

Composer, record, TV and film producer, arranger, instrumentalist, magazine founder and multi-media entrepreneur - Quincy Jones has done it all. In his 50-year career, he has won 26 Grammy awards and an Emmy, earned seven Oscar nominations and helped...

A group of unknowns noticed that a legendary actress had no star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame....

Axel, secretly AWOL from the army, joins a black waterfront worker in his fight against bigotry. Television film for The Philco Television Playhouse later remade as Edge of the City (1957)....

An interview with film scholar Mia Mask, co-editor of Poitier Revisited....