Search results for "Sidney Poitier"
Sidney

Sidney

Sidney
IMDb: 7.8
112

This revealing documentary honors the legendary Sidney Poitier—iconic actor, filmmaker, and civil rights activist. Featuring interviews with Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Halle Berry, and more.

Genre: Documentary
Nationtime

Nationtime

Nationtime
IMDb: 7.3
80

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,…

Genre: Documentary
Mr. SOUL!

Mr. SOUL!

Mr. SOUL!
IMDb: 7.8
90

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…

Moms Mabley

Moms Mabley

Moms Mabley
IMDb: 7.9
72

A feature documentary about Jackie “Moms” Mabley, an African-American stand-up comic and show-biz pioneer who emerged from the Chitlin’ Circuit of African-American Vaudeville to become a mainstream star. Once billed…

Genre: Documentary
Sing Your Song

Sing Your Song

Sing Your Song
IMDb: 7.5
103

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…

The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn

The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn

The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
IMDb: 7.4
85

In the small Southern community of Twin Pines, GA, lives Noah Dearborn, a master craftsman and farmer who cherishes his solitude almost as much as the local townspeople cherish him…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Mandela and de Klerk

Mandela and de Klerk

Mandela and de Klerk
IMDb: 7
114

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.

The Jackal

The Jackal

The Jackal
IMDb: 6.4
124

Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, a psychopathic hitman known only as The Jackal proves an elusive…

To Sir, With Love II

To Sir, With Love II

To Sir, With Love II
IMDb: 6.3
92

After thirty years teaching in London, Mark Thackeray retires and returns to Chicago. There, however, the challenge of teaching kids in an inner city school proves to be too much…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Sneakers

Sneakers

Sneakers
IMDb: 7.1
126

When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking ‘black box’ from a Soviet-funded genius, they uncover a…

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Shoot to Kill

Shoot to Kill

Shoot to Kill
IMDb: 6.8
109

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…

Little Nikita

Little Nikita

Little Nikita
IMDb: 5.9
98

Roy Parmenter is an FBI agent in San Diego; 20 years ago his partner was killed by a Soviet spy, nicknamed Scuba, still at large. Scuba is now trying to…

Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist

Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist

Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
IMDb: 7.5
30

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…

Genre: Documentary
A Piece of the Action

A Piece of the Action

A Piece of the Action
IMDb: 6.4
135

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…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
The Wilby Conspiracy

The Wilby Conspiracy

The Wilby Conspiracy
IMDb: 6.4
105

Having spent 10 years in prison for nationalist activities, Shack Twala is finally ordered released by the South African Supreme Court but he finds himself almost immediately on the run…

Let’s Do It Again

Let’s Do It Again

Let’s Do It Again
IMDb: 6.7
113

Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. However,…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Uptown Saturday Night

Uptown Saturday Night

Uptown Saturday Night
IMDb: 6.6
104

Two blue-collar buddies search the underworld for a winning lottery ticket lost in a nightclub holdup.

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
A Warm December

A Warm December

A Warm December
IMDb: 6.1
101

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…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Buck and the Preacher

Buck and the Preacher

Buck and the Preacher
IMDb: 6.6
102

A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.

Brother John

Brother John

Brother John
IMDb: 6.4
95

An enigmatic man returns to his Alabama hometown as his sister is dying of cancer and incites the suspicion of notable town officials.

The Organization

The Organization

The Organization
IMDb: 6
106

After a group of young revolutionaries break into a company’s corporate headquarters and steal $5,000,000 worth of heroin to keep it off the street, they call on San Francisco Police…

They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
IMDb: 6
108

A police detective’s investigation of a prostitute’s murder points to his best friend.

For Love of Ivy

For Love of Ivy

For Love of Ivy
IMDb: 6.2
101

A white family has had the same Black maid for many years. When she tells them she wants to go back to school and will be leaving soon, the 20ish…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
To Sir, with Love

To Sir, with Love

To Sir, with Love
IMDb: 7.6
105

A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his uninterested and delinquent pupils are in desperate need of attention and care.

Genre: Drama
In the Heat of the Night

In the Heat of the Night

In the Heat of the Night
IMDb: 7.9
109

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own…

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
IMDb: 7.8
108

A couple’s attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Duel at Diablo

Duel at Diablo

Duel at Diablo
IMDb: 6.5
105

In Apache territory, a supply Army column heads for the next fort, an ex-scout searches for the killer of his Native wife, and a housewife abandons her husband to rejoin…

Genre: Western
The Slender Thread

The Slender Thread

The Slender Thread
IMDb: 7
98

Alan is a Seattle college student volunteering at a crisis center. One night when at the clinic alone, a woman calls up the number and tells Alan that she needs…

Genre: Drama
A Patch of Blue

A Patch of Blue

A Patch of Blue
IMDb: 8
105

A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Bedford Incident

The Bedford Incident

The Bedford Incident
IMDb: 7.3
102

During a routine patrol, a reporter is given permission to interview a hardened cold-war warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford. The reporter gets more than he bargained…

The Long Ships

The Long Ships

The Long Ships
IMDb: 6
126

Moorish ruler El Mansuh is determined to locate a massive bell made of gold known as the “Mother of Voices.” Viking explorer Rolfe also becomes intent on finding the mythical…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Lilies of the Field

Lilies of the Field

Lilies of the Field
IMDb: 7.5
94

An unemployed construction worker heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Pressure Point

Pressure Point

Pressure Point
IMDb: 7.1
89

An African-American prison psychiatrist finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate with bigoted Nazi tendencies.

Genre: Drama
A Raisin in the Sun

A Raisin in the Sun

A Raisin in the Sun
IMDb: 8
128

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….

Genre: Drama, Romance
Paris Blues

Paris Blues

Paris Blues
IMDb: 6.7
98

During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls and must decide between music and love.

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
All the Young Men

All the Young Men

All the Young Men
IMDb: 6.2
83

During the Korean War, the lieutenant in charge of a Marine rifle platoon is killed in battle. Before he dies, he places the platoon’s sergeant, who’s black, in charge. The…

Porgy and Bess

Porgy and Bess

Porgy and Bess
IMDb: 7
138

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…

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
The Defiant Ones

The Defiant Ones

The Defiant Ones
IMDb: 7.6
96

Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Something of Value

Something of Value

Something of Value
IMDb: 6.5
113

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…

Genre: Drama, War
Edge of the City

Edge of the City

Edge of the City
IMDb: 7.2
85

An army deserter and a black dock worker join forces against a corrupt manager.

Genre: Drama