Sidney Poitier, a list by TV GUIDE

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77

/1187/

4.0

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92

/1187/

76

/15/

age 15+

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.

80

7.8

/301/

69

/13/

70

/3/

3.7

/591/

96

/28/

71

/5/

88

/6/

4.0

age 14+

On the heels of the Civil Rights Movement, one fearless black pioneer reconceived a Harlem Renaissance for a new era, ushering giants and rising stars of black American culture onto the national television stage. He was hip. He was smart. He was innovative, political, and gay. In his personal fight for social equality, this man ensured the Revolution would be televised. The man was Ellis Haizlip. The Revolution was soul!

79

7.2

/215/

65

/12/

80

/1/

3.8

/1273/

100

/17/

77

/4/

3.5

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.

82

79

8.0

/10496/

79

/248/

77

/140/

4.0

/13618/

90

/52/

86

/258/

87

/5/

age 13+

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 like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall.

78

7.8

/52269/

78

/1036/

75

/890/

3.9

/50673/

71

/38/

86

/1476/

63

/6/

4.0

age 12+

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

76

7.8

/1467/

74

/112/

76

/38/

3.7

/2449/

90

/80/

84

/3/

70

/21/

2.5

age 13+

This revealing documentary honors the legendary Sidney Poitier—iconic actor, filmmaker, and civil rights activist. Featuring interviews with Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Halle Berry, and more.

77

76

7.5

/19734/

74

/389/

71

/308/

3.8

/16404/

90

/58/

88

/253/

69

/8/

Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.

75

7.6

/21730/

76

/527/

74

/332/

3.6

/15400/

90

/29/

88

/769/

55

/8/

age 13+

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 desperate need of attention and care.

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74

8.0

/10164/

78

/137/

75

/117/

4.0

/7173/

89

/9/

91

/284/

73

/5/

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

76

73

7.5

/15094/

75

/275/

72

/210/

3.6

/10719/

92

/26/

86

/265/

61

/8/

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 worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict mother superior, who believes the man has been sent by God to build a much needed church in the desert.

71

6.7

/3552/

77

/174/

69

/22/

3.3

/782/

60

/10/

85

/101/

3.0

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 Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. However, their method for raising the money involves travelling to New Orleans and rigging a boxing match.

71

6.8

/15931/

71

/382/

65

/256/

3.4

/5552/

100

/15/

65

/164/

56

/11/

3.0

When a cunning murderer vanishes into the rugged mountains of the Pacific Northwest, pursuing FBI agent Warren Stantin must exchange familiar city streets for unknown wilderness trails. Completely out of his element, Stantin is forced to enlist the aid of expert tracker Jonathan Knox. It's a turbulent yet vital relationship they must maintain in order to survive... and one that becomes increasingly desperate when Knox's girlfriend Sarah becomes the killer's latest hostage!

71

7.1

/67360/

74

/2739/

69

/1015/

3.6

/44736/

80

/61/

80

/1328/

65

/20/

2.5

age 13+

When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking 'black box' from a Soviet-funded genius, they uncover a bigger conspiracy. Now, he and his 'sneakers' must save themselves and the world economy by retrieving the box from their blackmailers.

76

68

7.4

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73

/116/

69

/100/

3.7

/7019/

85

/13/

82

/53/

Two hoodlum brothers are brought into hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one dies, the other accuses their Black doctor of murder.

74

68

7.3

/6593/

73

/177/

70

/96/

3.6

/2047/

86

/14/

75

/78/

During a routine patrol, a reporter is given permission to interview a hardened cold-war warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford. The reporter gets more than he bargained for when the Bedford discovers a Soviet sub and the captain begins a relentless pursuit, pushing his crew to breaking point.

71

66

7.4

/10455/

72

/170/

69

/158/

3.5

/6183/

74

/27/

77

/146/

67

/10/

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. Dadier makes various attempts to engage the students' interest in education, challenging both the school staff and the pupils. He is subjected to violence as well as duplicitous schemes.

65

6.5

/1614/

77

/97/

56

/17/

3.2

/484/

79

/38/

2.0

How does retired cop Joshua Burke (James Earl Jones) get two career criminals, Manny Durrell (Sidney Poitier) and Dave Anderson (Bill Cosby), to follow the straight and narrow? Con them into helping juvenile delinquents turn over a new leaf. But how? Burke has never been able to nail the duo, but he uses what he knows of their seedy past to blackmail them into volunteering.

63

6.2

/960/

69

/16/

58

/8/

3.4

/430/

43

/7/

52

/23/

3.5

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 year old son decides what she needs is a change and begins searching for a man to wine and dine her, but who won't marry her, thinking that this will distract her from her plans. The man he finds doesn't entirely cooperate.

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60

6.7

/4449/

67

/92/

65

/69/

3.6

/9167/

71

/14/

68

/46/

61

/7/

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 and love.

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60

6.6

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77

/196/

61

/38/

3.2

/1789/

70

/10/

79

/72/

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

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59

6.6

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69

/309/

63

/208/

3.2

/4918/

42

/24/

64

/305/

From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling. Major aspects of Christ's life are touched upon, including the execution of all the newborn males in Egypt by King Herod; Christ's baptism by John the Baptist; and the betrayal by Judas after the Last Supper that eventually leads to Christ's crucifixion and miraculous return.

68

59

6.6

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70

/108/

63

/60/

3.6

/5494/

84

/44/

61

/35/

65

/16/

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

71

58

7.2

/3859/

67

/57/

71

/59/

3.6

/4057/

75

/37/

A male army deserter and a black male dock worker join forces against a corrupt manager, in a corrupt environment, and as their connection blossoms they must face the oppressive and morally decaying city they live in.

62

53

6.5

/4820/

64

/141/

63

/111/

3.1

/2287/

60

/31/

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 abandons her husband to rejoin her Apache lover's tribe.

52

5.9

/6349/

61

/144/

61

/115/

2.9

/4195/

53

/15/

44

/80/

50

/11/

1.5

An FBI agent works to uncover an all-American family as Soviet sleeper agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their oblivious teenage son.

71

52

7.0

/2662/

73

/46/

71

/51/

3.5

/2068/

71

/7/

75

/21/

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 that she needs to talk to someone. She informs Alan she took a load of pills, and he secretly tries to get help. During this time, he learns more about the woman, her family life, and why she wants to die. Can Alan get the cavalry to save her in time before it's too late?

74

50

7.6

/1419/

72

/65/

67

/23/

3.6

/1288/

83

/6/

79

/73/

The documentary consists of tape of Don's show (never been filmed before), interviews with Don's contemporaries, (Steve Lawrence, Bob Newhart, Debbie Reynolds, etc.), established comedians (Billy Crystal, Rosanna Barr, Robin Williams, Chris Rock, etc.) and young comedians (Jeff Atoll, Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman, etc.).

50

6.4

/131114/

68

/3796/

63

/2030/

3.0

/37461/

24

/33/

51

/1682/

36

/20/

1.5

Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, a psychopathic hitman known only as The Jackal proves an elusive target for the people charged with the task of bringing him down: a deputy FBI director, a Russian MVK Major, and a jailed IRA terrorist who can recognize him.

54

49

6.0

/4861/

63

/192/

58

/96/

3.0

/3188/

50

/6/

36

/66/

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

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6.0

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63

/117/

62

/53/

3.0

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25

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28

/23/

2.0

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 the street, they call on San Francisco Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs for assistance.

69

48

7.1

/2346/

67

/39/

65

/39/

3.5

/2130/

76

/27/

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

69

47

6.9

/2075/

67

/33/

61

/24/

3.3

/978/

71

/48/

77

/25/

77

/4/

In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.

64

46

6.5

/2802/

67

/56/

62

/44/

3.4

/1052/

60

/5/

65

/35/

Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly 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.

61

44

6.4

/2598/

65

/61/

64

/39/

3.2

/1119/

71

/7/

43

/21/

57

/5/

Having spent 10 years in prison for nationalist activities, Shack Twala is finally ordered released by the South African Supreme Court but he finds himself almost immediately on the run after a run-in with the police. Assisted by his lawyer Rina Van Niekirk and visiting British engineer Jim Keogh, he heads for Capetown where he hopes to recover a stash of diamonds, meant to finance revolutionary activities, that he had entrusted to a dentist before his incarceration. Along the way, they are followed by Major Horn of the South African State security bureau and it becomes apparent that he has no intention of arresting them until they reach their final destination

56

40

6.0

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65

/59/

60

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3.0

/795/

54

/13/

39

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Moorish ruler El Mansuh is determined to locate a massive bell made of gold known as the "Mother of Voices." Viking explorer Rolfe also becomes intent on finding the mythical treasure, and sails with his crew from Scandinavia to Africa to track it down. Reluctantly working together, El Mansuh and Rolfe, along with their men, embark on a quest for the prized object, but only one leader will be able to claim the bell as his own — if it even exists at all.

71

36

7.4

/1921/

72

/42/

61

/18/

3.4

/334/

84

/47/

In the small Southern community of Twin Pines, GA, lives Noah Dearborn, a master craftsman and farmer who cherishes his solitude almost as much as the local townspeople cherish him — especially restaurant owner Sarah McClellan. But when greedy real estate developers set their sights on Noah's land and he rejects their six-figure offer, this taciturn man is forced to summon all his strength in order to defend not only his property and way of life, but his sanity.

77

36

7.5

/526/

81

/29/

69

/10/

3.5

/201/

95

/40/

79

/15/

73

/9/

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.

80

34

7.6

/482/

73

/43/

65

/9/

3.5

/750/

100

/7/

97

/11/

The making of Elvis Presley's famous live TV concert and the chaotic behind the scenes. It was the most-watched television event of the year with nearly half of the audience tuned in to watch Presley perform in his iconic black leather suit.

70

32

7.0

/1093/

66

/12/

61

/16/

3.5

/667/

92

/13/

65

/9/

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.

64

32

6.4

/1614/

71

/59/

64

/59/

3.2

/737/

60

/14/

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.

71

30

7.2

/1187/

53

/6/

77

/7/

3.5

/492/

86

/77/

An old man and a young boy who live in the southeastern Mississippi swamps are brought together by the love of a dog.

82

28

8.8

/1248/

80

/68/

75

/13/

4.0

/915/

90

/6/

Recorded live at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles, Roy is joined by an eclectic ensemble of rock and roll superstars including Jackson Browne, Elvis Costello, T-Bone Burnett, J.D. Souther, Jennifer Warnes, k.d. lang, Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen and Tom Waits.

56

24

6.5

/1421/

57

/19/

54

/21/

3.2

/483/

50

/6/

50

/7/

As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British colonist, find themselves on opposite sides of the struggle in this provocative drama. Though each is devoted to his cause, both wish for a more moderate path -- but their hopes for a peaceful resolution are thwarted by rage, colonial arrogance and escalating violence on both sides.

60

23

6.4

/1044/

63

/19/

58

/18/

3.3

/352/

50

/48/

August 1944: proceeding with the invasion of France, Patton's Third Army has advanced so far toward Paris that it cannot be supplied. To keep up the momentum, Allied HQ establishes an elite military truck route.

72

20

7.5

/547/

64

/22/

72

/17/

3.7

/1001/

75

/2/

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.”

76

19

8.2

/691/

70

/13/

71

/11/

3.9

/745/

A presentation of key events in the life of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. Beginning with the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, MLK is followed through major steps in his struggle to promote racial equality. Including footage of King's stirring speeches, it is a fitting tribute to his legacy, and features clips narrated by a wide range of celebrities, including Harry Belafonte, Paul Newman Charlton Heston, Ruby Dee, Burt Lancaster, Anthony Quinn, Walter Matthau, Ben Gazzara, Clarence Williams III, Joanne Woodward, and James Earl Jones.

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16

6.2

/879/

55

/6/

64

/14/

3.3

/719/