Sidney Poitier Movies

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar...

A presentation of key events in the life of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. Beginning with the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama,...

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

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

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

The making of Elvis Presley's famous live TV concert and the chaotic behind the scenes. It was the most-watched television event of the year with...

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...

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

This loving tribute to Gene Wilder celebrates his life and legacy as the comic genius behind an extraordinary string of film roles, from his first...

The story of Jesus Christ has been portrayed countless times throughout the history of cinema, from the chaste and embryonic staging of the silent...

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

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...

A psychiatrist tries to treat an emotionally disturbed teenage boy who has a pathological fear of being touched. The only person who can communicate...

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

A feature documentary about Jackie "Moms" Mabley, an African-American stand-up comic and show-biz pioneer who emerged from the Chitlin' Circuit of...

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...

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

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...

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.