Sidney Poitier

An imprisoned I.R.A. fighter is freed to help stop a brutal, seemingly "faceless" assassin from completing his next job.

A black Philadelphia police detective is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town, and after being cleared is reluctantly asked by the police chief to investigate the case.

A security pro finds his past returning to haunt him when he and his unique team are tasked with retrieving a particularly important item.

A White couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her Black fiancé.

Set up and wrongfully accused, two best friends are sent to prison for a crime they didn't commit. However, no prison cell can keep them locked in a cage.

Idealistic engineer-trainee and his experiences in teaching a group of rambunctious white high school students from the slums of London's East End.

Two chained-together escaped convicts, one white and one black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture.

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.

A travelling handyman becomes the answer to the prayers of nuns who wish to build a chapel in the desert.

A new English teacher at a violent, unruly inner-city school is determined to do his job, despite resistance from both students and faculty.

A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.

A widowed father tries to support his children after he becomes a ghost in an accident.

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.

In San Francisco, a high-priced call girl is murdered and the case is assigned to Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs.

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.

Two Atlanta men raise funds for their charity by rigging boxing matches in New Orleans, but their tricks attract the mob's attention.

Completely innocent man, Michael Jordon, is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she's later murdered, Michael becomes the chief suspect and goes on the run.

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

Amantha Starr grows up as a privileged Southern belle in the ante-bellum South, but after her father dies broke, her world is destroyed when she discovers that her mother was Black.

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?

A black anti-Apartheid activist and a British engineer are forced to run from South African Secret Police.

A Black prison psychiatrist is assigned the distasteful task of helping a paranoid American Nazi charged with sedition.

In San Francisco, Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs helps a group of idealistic vigilantes expose a drug ring controlled by powerful businessmen.

A 91-year-old carpenter has to fight developers who are trying to force him to sell his land.

After 30 years of teaching in London, Mark Thackeray retires and returns to Chicago. There, however, the challenge of teaching kids in an inner-city school proves to be too much to resist.

A retired Chicago cop blackmails two rich thieves into "volunteering" to help juvenile delinquents change paths.

Follow the real life story of Sidney Poitier, the Oscar winner of 1964.

Stephen Kumalo journeys to Johannesburg to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and his son a criminal. A South African clergyman helps find his missing son-turned-thief and sister-turned-prostitute.

Upon learning their maid will be leaving to earn an education, the son of the family decides to set her up with a man.

Eight small-town teens travel to New York City for a one-in-a-million shot at stardom in a national dance competition.

The life of actor and activist Paul Robeson.

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 justice globally.

A look at the work and influence of African-American stand-up comedienne, Moms Mabley.

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