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Sidney Poitier
(February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022)


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Movie: To Sir, with Love ( 1967 )
Idealistic engineer-trainee and his experiences in teaching a group of rambunctious white high school students from the slums of London's East End.
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Movie: No Way Out ( 1950 )
Two hoodlums, brothers, are shot and wounded during an attempted robbery. They are taken to a nearby hospital where one brother dies. The surviving brother, a rabid racist, blames the African-American doctor for his death.
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Movie: Cry, the Beloved Country ( 1952 )
In the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo (Canada Lee) journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and his son a criminal. Reverend Msimangu (Sidney Poitier) is a young South African clergyman who helps find his missing son-turned-thief and sister-turned-prostitute in the slums of Johannesburg.
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Movie: Edge of the City ( 1957 )
Two New York City longshoremen Axel Nordmann, an Army deserter and Tommy Tyler, an easy-going freight car loader whose growing friendship is threatened by Charles Malik, a notably repellent punk.
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Movie: Band of Angels ( 1957 )
Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widower father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and he sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly however, Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress. The plantation is to be sold to pay off her father's debts and as the daughter of a slave, Amantha is also to be sold as property. She is bought by a Louisiana plantation owner, Hamish Bond and over time she grows to love him until she learns he was a slave-trader. She tries again to become part of white society but realizes that her future lies elsewhere.
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Movie: The Defiant Ones ( 1958 )
Two chained-together escaped convicts, white and Black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture.
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Movie: The Mark of the Hawk ( 1957 )
Obam finds himself caught in the middle of hostility between British colonists and African villagers who want to reclaim their land. He sets out to save his country before tensions get out of control.
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Movie: Porgy and Bess ( 1959 )
A woman whose past is scorned by nearly everyone around her meets a man who'd love her regardlessly- if only everyone else would allow them to.
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Movie: All the Young Men ( 1960 )
During the Korean War, a platoon leader dies, leaving his inexperienced black Sergeant in charge of his squad of belligerent and racist white men.
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Movie: A Raisin in the Sun ( 1961 )
A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.
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Movie: Lilies of the Field ( 1963 )
A travelling handyman becomes the answer to the prayers of nuns who wish to build a chapel in the desert.
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Movie: Pressure Point ( 1963 )
A black prison psychiatrist is assigned the distasteful task of helping a paranoid American Nazi charged with sedition.
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Movie: The Long Ships ( 1964 )
A vagabond Viking adventurer and a Moor both compete to find "The Mother of All Voices", a legendary golden bell near the Pillars of Hercules.
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Movie: The Bedford Incident ( 1965 )
An American destroyer Captain is determined to confront a Soviet submarine caught violating territorial waters. Perhaps too determined.
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Movie: A Patch of Blue ( 1965 )
A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life by introducing her to the outside world.
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Movie: The Slender Thread ( 1965 )
College volunteer Alan Newell is working alone at the crisis center one evening when he receives a telephone call from suicidal caller Inga Dyson, who has swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills. Can Alan save her?
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Movie: Duel at Diablo ( 1966 )
In Apache territory, a supply Army column heads for the next fort, an ex-scout searches for the killer of his Indian wife, and a housewife abandons her husband in order to rejoin her Apache lover's tribe.
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Movie: In the Heat of the Night ( 1967 )
An African-American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.
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Movie: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner ( 1967 )
A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African-American fiancé.
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Movie: For Love of Ivy ( 1968 )
Upon learning their maid will be leaving to earn an education, the son of the family decides to set her up with a man.
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Movie: The Lost Man ( 1969 )
A gang of black militants plots to rob a factory to finance their "revolutionary struggle".
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Movie: They Call Me Mister Tibbs! ( 1970 )
In San Francisco, a high-priced call girl is murdered and the case is assigned to Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs.
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Movie: The Organization ( 1971 )
In San Francisco, Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs helps a group of idealistic vigilantes expose a drug ring controlled by powerful businessmen.
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Movie: Buck and the Preacher ( 1972 )
A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
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Movie: Uptown Saturday Night ( 1974 )
At Madame Zenobia's illegal nightclub, when Steve Jackson and Wardell Franklin get robbed of their wallets containing a winning lottery ticket, they set out to recover it.
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Movie: The Wilby Conspiracy ( 1975 )
A black anti-Apartheid activist and a British engineer are forced to run from South African Secret Police.
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Movie: Let's Do It Again ( 1975 )
Two Atlanta men raise funds for their charity by rigging boxing matches in New Orleans, but their tricks attract the mob's attention.
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Movie: A Piece of the Action ( 1978 )
Dave Anderson and Manny Durrell are two high-class sneak thieves who have never been caught. Joshua Burke is a retired detective who has enough evidence on the both of them to put them behind bars. Instead, he offers to maintain his silence if the crooks will go straight and do work at a youth center for delinquents. At first, the crooks are reluctant and unwilling (and so are the kids). As time goes by they gain the trust and admiration of the kids and they start to enjoy the job. All goes well until someone out of the past tells them they have to do one last heist...or else.
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Movie: Shoot to Kill ( 1988 )
An F.B.I. Agent teams up with a tracker to pursue a murderer after he vanishes into the mountains and infiltrates a hiking group.
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Movie: Little Nikita ( 1988 )
An F.B.I. Agent works to uncover an All-American family as Soviet sleeper Agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their unaware son.
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TV Show: Separate But Equal ( 1991 )
Separate But Equal traces the events leading up to the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education which declared that segregated schools are unconstitutional. This drama starring Sidney Poitier and Richard Kiley appeared as a television miniseries. It offers an inspiring portrait of moral leadership. The Rev. J.A. DeLaine, a black clergyman, convinces his student's parents to bring a case against the school board of South Carolina. Thurgood Marshall, chief council for the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund, displays moral leadership in his handling of the case. Then Chief Justice Earl Warren uses his skills of negotiation to convince the other justices on the Supreme Court to vote for desegregation.
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Movie: Sneakers ( 1992 )
A security pro finds his past coming back to haunt him, when he and his unique team are tasked with retrieving a particularly important item.
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Movie: To Sir, with Love II ( 1996 )
After thirty years teaching in London, Mark Thackeray retires and returns to Chicago. There, however, the challenge of reaching kids in an inner city school proves to be too much to resist.
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Movie: Mandela and de Klerk ( 1997 )
On June 12, 1964, Nelson Mandela, along with numerous political detainees, was sentenced to life imprisonment in what remains the most sensational treason trial in the history of South Africa. The incarceration of Mandela and other political prisoners on Robben Island would become a symbol of the struggle to end apartheid and win freedom for the black majority in South Africa. On February 2, 1990, President F.W. De Klerk stood before Parliament and announced the legalization of the African National Congress and a host of other banned political organizations. At the same time, he announced that Nelson Mandela, having served twenty-seven years in prison, would be released within seven days. Yet the world, and indeed most South Africans, knew little about how this momentous occasion came to pass. Until now. This movie was filmed in South Africa. Most of the locations are those where the actual events took place, and the dramatized sequences are augmented with newsreel footage to ensure the most accurate portrayal possible of recent historical events.
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Movie: The Jackal ( 1997 )
An imprisoned I.R.A. fighter is freed to help stop a brutal, seemingly "faceless" assassin from completing his next job.
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Movie: The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn ( 1999 )
A 91-year-old carpenter has to fight developers who are trying to force him to sell his land.
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Movie: The Last Brickmaker in America ( 2001 )
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 thirteen-year-old.