Sidney Poitier Movies

While crossing the desert, a frontier scout, Jess Remsberg, rescues Ellen Grange from a pursuing band of Apaches, and returns her to her husband,...

Genre: Western

Cast: James Garner

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katharine Houghton

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...

Genre: Music

Cast: Sidney Poitier

When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Redford

From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Max von Sydow

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sidney Poitier

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Bruce Willis

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tony Curtis

Having spent 10 years in prison for nationalist activities, Shack Twala is finally ordered released by the South African Supreme Court but he finds...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Sidney Poitier

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sidney Poitier

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sidney Poitier

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....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Glenn Ford

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

Cast: Sidney Poitier

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

Genre: Action

Cast: Sidney Poitier

When a cunning murderer vanishes into the rugged mountains of the Pacific Northwest, pursuing FBI agent Warren Stantin must exchange familiar city...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sidney Poitier

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...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Paul Newman

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sidney Poitier

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sidney Poitier

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Cassavetes

Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Widmark

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sidney Poitier

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sidney Poitier

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sidney Poitier

How does retired cop Joshua Burke (James Earl Jones) get two career criminals, Manny Durrell (Sidney Poitier) and Dave Anderson (Bill Cosby), to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sidney Poitier

Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Clark Gable

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...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Richard Widmark

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sidney Poitier

During a routine patrol, a reporter is given permission to interview a hardened cold-war warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford....

Genre: Action

Cast: Richard Widmark

As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rock Hudson

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sidney Poitier

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sidney Poitier

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

Cast: Sidney Poitier

Most people know the lasting legacy of Harry Belafonte, the entertainer. This film unearths his significant contribution to and his leadership in the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Harry Belafonte

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eartha Kitt

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,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sidney Poitier

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sidney Poitier

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sidney Poitier

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sidney Poitier

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sidney Poitier

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

Genre: History

Cast: Sidney Poitier

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,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Alan Ladd

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Jeff Chandler

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sidney Poitier

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sidney Poitier

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Canada Lee

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Whoopi Goldberg

Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine both received Emmy nominations for their performances in this made-for-TV movie. The plot follows Nelson Mandela's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sidney Poitier

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Cassavetes

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sidney Poitier

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Walter Brennan

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Morgan Freeman

A series of thirty-two trailers put together to illustrate the film industry's attitude to and packaging of African-American screen imagery.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sidney Poitier

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Harry Belafonte

The documentary consists of tape of Don's show (never been filmed before), interviews with Don's contemporaries, (Steve Lawrence, Bob Newhart, Debbie...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Don Rickles

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: LaTanya Richardson Jackson

In this tribute to her frequent co-star and longtime love, Katharine Hepburn hosts a behind-the-scenes look at Spencer Tracy's personal and...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Spencer Tracy

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paul Robeson

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dane Clark

The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Anjelica Huston

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mia Mask

A report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathered Black voices from across the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sidney Poitier

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

Genre:

Cast: James Baldwin

Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Samuel L. Jackson

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ellis Haizlip

Actor/director Sidney Poitier discusses his life and career. He tells of his upbringing in Jamaica; the difficulties he encountered in New York City...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stanley Burnside

Composer, record, TV and film producer, arranger, instrumentalist, magazine founder and multi-media entrepreneur - Quincy Jones has done it all. In...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Quincy Jones

Documentary commemorating the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's March on Washington, a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement in the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Martin Luther King Jr.

Describes how Elizabeth Hartman was auditioned and chosen for the part of Selina in "A Patch of Blue."

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Elizabeth Hartman

This revealing documentary honors the legendary Sidney Poitier—iconic actor, filmmaker, and civil rights activist. Featuring interviews with...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sidney Poitier

A career overview of film and TV actor Richard Widmark.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Richard Widmark

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

Genre:

Cast: Florence Anglin

Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, the documentary follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1955 to 1968, in his rise from regional...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Martin Luther King Jr.

This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Debbie Allen

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sidney Poitier

Recorded live at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles, Roy is joined by an eclectic ensemble of rock and roll superstars including Jackson Browne, Elvis...

Genre: Music

Cast: Roy Orbison

Documentary about Hollywood.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jeff Bridges

Multi-talented, Paul Newman is one of the greatest American actors of all time. With his silhouette of a Greek statue and his unreal blue eyes, he...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paul Newman

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Elvis Presley

Documentary profile of musician and producer Quincy Jones

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Quincy Jones

TCM host Ben Mankiewicz hosts this 50th anniversary special, with archival footage from 50 years of tributes to various legends in film by the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ben Mankiewicz

Barbra Streisand became the 29th recipient of the prestigious American Film Institute (AFI) Life Achievement Award in a star-studded gala tribute...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Barbra Streisand

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Len Adleman

In 30 years of a deeply committed career and 50 roles, Denzel Washington, double-Oscar winner, placed the figure of the Black man in all its...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Spike Lee