ChannelHopper.org > Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier was an actor, film director, and author, born on February 20, 1927, in Miami, Florida. He was the first black actor to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the 1963 film "Lilies of the Field". Poitier also directed several successful films, including "Stir Crazy" and "Ghost Dad".
Titles credited to Sidney Poitier
A Patch of Blue
A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.
Find out more, including where to stream or buy >
A Raisin in the Sun
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. Until, that is, the family gets...
Find out more, including where to stream or buy >
Moms Mabley
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 st...
Find out more, including where to stream or buy >
In the Heat of the Night
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 o...
Find out more, including where to stream or buy >
Mr. SOUL!
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 the national telev...
Find out more, including where to stream or buy >
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.
Find out more, including where to stream or buy >
To Sir, with Love
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.
Find out more, including where to stream or buy >
The Defiant Ones
Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other.
Find out more, including where to stream or buy >
Sing Your Song
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 jus...
Find out more, including where to stream or buy >
Lilies of the Field
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 of East European Catholic nuns, headed...
Find out more, including where to stream or buy >