Sidney Poitier
Author
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"I have no wish to play the pontificating fool, pretending that I've suddenly come up with the answers to all life's questions. Quite the contrary, I began this book as an exploration, an exercise in self-questioning. In other words, I wanted to find out, as I looked back at a long and complicated life, with many twists and turns, how well I've done at measuring up to the values I myself have set. "In this luminous memoir, a true American icon looks...
3) Paris Blues
Series
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1961.
Language
English
Description
Ram Bowen (Paul Newman) and Eddie Cook (Sidney Poitier) are two expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris where Jazz musicians are celebrated and racism is a non-issue. When they meet and fall in love with two young American girls (Joanne Woodward, Diahann Carroll) vacationing in France, Ram and Eddie must decide whether they should move back to America with them, or stay in Paris for the freedom it allows them. Director Martin Ritt creates a love...
Series
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
English
Description
Homer Smith (Sidney Poitier), an itinerant handyman, is driving through the desert when he meets five nuns. Stopping to fix their leaky farmhouse roof, Homer discovers the Mother Superior also wants him to build their chapel - for free! Hesitant at first, Homer soon finds himself single-handedly raising the chapel and the financing. But although he will not receive a monetary reward, Homer knows that when his work is done, he'll leave the desert town...
5) Nationtime
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
English
Formats
Description
Coverage of the first National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, 1972.
Best known for his avant-garde meta-documentary Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, William Greaves (1926-2014) was also the director of over 100 documentary films, the majority focused on African American history, politics, and culture. Nationtime is a report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathered black voices...
Series
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1967.
Language
English
Description
Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger (who won a Best Actor Oscar® for his performance) shine in this classic mystery-thriller that took home five Academy Awards®, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. Lee Grant and Warren Oates also star.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Crusading newspaper publisher Matt Drayton's liberal principles are put to the test when his daughter, Joey, announces her engagement to John Prentice, an internationally renowned African-American physician. While Matt's wife, Christina, readily accepts Joey's decision, Matt intends to withhold his consent, forgetting that when it comes to matters of the heart, true love is colorblind.
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In a small southern Georgia community lives Noah Dearborn, a master craftsman and farmer who cherishes his solitude. When a greedy real estate developer sets his sights on Noah's land, Noah rejects his offer, but he must summon all his strength in order to defend his property, his way of life and ultimately his sanity.
11) Duel at Diablo
Series
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
James Garner and Sidney Poitier team up for this sweeping story of the bitter conflict between the Apache and the white man. Bibi Andersson co-stars.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
San Francisco Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs is called in to investigate when a liberal street preacher and political candidate is accused of murdering a prostitute. Tibbs is also battling domestic woes, including a frustrated wife and a rebellious adolescent son.
13) Sneakers
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Formats
Description
A thriller about five computer hackers with questionable pasts and an equally questionable government job.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000], ©1972
Language
English
Description
This is the story of the perils faced by a wagon train of courageous black settlers. It's the 1860s and Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation has just freed the country's slaves, but a group of vigilate nightraiders are resentful of the black men's newly-gained freedom.
15) Nationtime
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Best known for his avant-garde meta-documentary Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, William Greaves (1926-2014) was also the director of over 100 documentary films, the majority focused on African American history, politics, and culture. Nationtime is a report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathered black voices from across the political spectrum, among them Jesse Jackson, Dick Gregory, Coretta...
17) Death proof
Publisher
Distributed by Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Stuntman Mike is a former Hollywood stunt race car driver who targets and kills women with his 'death-proof' stunt car. Mike surfaces in Austin and targets a group of women. Then Mike surfaces in Tennessee where he randomly picks another another group of women to stalk. All of them work in the motion picture business. However, the second set of girls proves more though to get, and because of a combination of bad luck and Mike's carelessness, the girls...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2002, c1977
Language
English
Description
In "A piece of the action," Manny and Dave are two Chicago crooks skilled at rippiing off rip-off-artists who exploit the poor. They don't intend to give to the poor until a sly detective anonymously pulls a con of his own: they must donate time to the Community Center ... or do time in the federal pen. In "Uptown Saturday Night," two men who pose as diamond dealers in order to get into an exclusive Black nightclub are robbed when the club is held...
19) Paris blues
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Two American jazz musicians living in Paris fall in love with two girls on vacation from America. They must decide whether to stay in Paris for their music careers, or move back to America for love.
Publisher
[Columbia Tristar Home Video]
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Film of the award-winning play about a struggling black family living on Chicago's South Side and the impact of an unexpected insurance bequest. Each family member sees the bequest as the means of realizing dreams and of escape from grinding frustrations.