Nationtime

1972

English

7.2

♡ 2

100%

Action

Documentary

William Greaves Director

Jesse Jackson as Self

Isaac Hayes as Self

Al Freeman Jr. as Self

Sidney Poitier as Self - Narrator

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 Scott King, Richard Hatcher, Amiri Baraka, Charles Diggs, and H. Carl McCall.

Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist

1979

English

7.5

75%

Saul J. Turell Director

Sidney Poitier as Narrator

Paul Robeson as Self

Margaret Webster as Self - Director of 'Othello'

This Academy Award-winning documentary short Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist, narrated by Sidney Poitier, traces the career of Paul Robeson through his activism and his socially charged performances of his signature song, “Ol’ Man River.”

To Sir, with Love II

1996

English

6.4

♡ 10

60%

Peter Bogdanovich Director

Neil Flynn as Detective Dennis

Daniel J. Travanti as Horace Weaver

Sidney Poitier as Mark Thackeray

Judy Geeson as Pamela Dare

After thirty years 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.

Cry, the Beloved Country

1951

English

7.0

♡ 7

92%

65%

Action

apartheid

based on novel or book

Drama

johannesburg south africa

minister

pre-unix

south africa

Zoltan Korda Director

Geoffrey Keen as Father Vincent

Joyce Carey as Margaret Jarvis

Michael Goodliffe as Martens

Sidney Poitier as Reverend Msimangu

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 living in squalor and his son a criminal. Reverend Misimangu is a young South African clergyman who helps find his missing son-turned-thief and sister-turned-prostitute in the slums of Johannesburg.

The Loving Story

2011

English

7.7

♡ 3

100%

interracial relationship

Romance

supreme court

woman director

Nancy Buirski Director

Jane Alexander as Eleanor

James Earl Jones as Jack Jefferson

Katharine Houghton as Joey Drayton

Sidney Poitier as John Prentice

This documentary film tells the dramatic story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple living in Virginia in the 1950s, and their landmark Supreme Court Case, Loving v. Virginia, that changed history.

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Nationtime

Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist

To Sir, with Love II

Cry, the Beloved Country

The Loving Story