Sidney Poitier Movies

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,...

The man called Obam struggles with the increasingly hostile forces facing each other in a colonial African country. The African natives want their...

Axel, secretly AWOL from the army, joins a black waterfront worker in his fight against bigotry. Television film for The Philco Television Playhouse...

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...

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

A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.

This Academy Award-winning documentary short Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist, narrated by Sidney Poitier, traces the career of Paul Robeson...

On the heels of the Civil Rights Movement, one fearless black pioneer reconceived a Harlem Renaissance for a new era, ushering giants and rising...

A look at the confluence of the Red Scare, McCarthyism, and blacklists with the post-war activism by African Americans seeking more and better roles...

Story about Will Cleamons, a former teacher-turned-businessman who agrees to tutor 18-year-old high school dropout, Nicole Turner. Much to his...

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

A career overview of film and TV actor Richard Widmark.

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

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

Documentary about Hollywood.

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

Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier travel down memory lane to see what life was like back in the 1920s. Harry Belafonte introduces this musical,...

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...

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

Exceptionally talented actor and bridge-builder between black and white, a political icon and artist at the same time: that was Sidney Poitier. He...