Sidney Poitier

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

In Apache territory, a supply Army column heads for the next fort, an ex-scout searches for the killer of his Native wife, and a housewife ...

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 ...

A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.

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

Moorish ruler El Mansuh is determined to locate a massive bell made of gold known as the “Mother of Voices.” Viking explorer Rolfe ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar ...

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

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

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

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

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. ...

August 1944: proceeding with the invasion of France, Patton’s Third Army has advanced so far toward Paris that it cannot be supplied. To ...

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 ...