Harry Belafonte rose to fame in the 1950s as a singer and actor, bringing the Caribbean sounds of calypso music to the charts...
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2012
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As one of the few heavyweight comedians of Vegas's "Golden Age" to topline standup routines in 21st century Glitter Gulch - a...
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2007
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Championship boxer Muhammad Ali was known for his colorful way with words, and in this documentary produced for ESPN Public...
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2006
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Mark Wexler is a successful photojournalist who has also distinguished himself as a documentary filmmaker, but in many ways...
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2005
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Ralph Bunche was arguably the most distinguished and honored African-American of his generation. Born in 1904, Bunche refused...
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Narrator
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2001
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Actor Sidney Poitier returns to CBS, the same station which originally broadcast his leading role in 1999's...
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Henry Cobb
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2001
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Sydney Poitier's talent and sheer magnetism in such films as In the Heat of the Night and Raisin in the Sun broke color...
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1999
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1999
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Directed by Gregg Champion, The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn follows the story of small town carpenter and farmer Noah...
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Noah Dearborn
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1999
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Oprah Winfrey co-produced this psychological drama, a TV movie remake of the acclaimed black-and-white low-budget ($180,000)...
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Dr. Jack Miller
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1998
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In an historical docudrama that was made for television, Sidney Poitier performs the role of Nelson Mandela, while...
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Nelson Mandela
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1997
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This humorous and insightful documentary is composed exclusively of movie trailers promoting films which depict the lives of...
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1997
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In Moscow, after FBI deputy director Carter Preston (Sidney Poitier) and scarred Russian intelligence officer Valentina...
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Cater Preston
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1997
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This made-for-TV sequel to the 1968 theatrical feature To Sir With Love stars Sidney Poitier, recreating his role as Mark...
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1996
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Narrated by actor Alec Baldwin, this documentary profiles the adventurous, contentious, and very talented director William...
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1995
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A Native American struggles to find himself and maintain his cultural identity growing up with a White family in the Old West...
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1995
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Friendship and racism in 1880s America is explored in this made-for-television drama. Sidney Poitier stars as Gypsy Smith, a...
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Gypsy Smith
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1995
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In this tech-thriller from director Phil Alden Robinson, a group of five renegade computer hackers, led by Martin Bishop...
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Donald Crease
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1992
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Based on the ground-breaking Brown vs. the Board of Education case, the made-for-television Separate But Equal follows a...
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Thurgood Marshall
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1991
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Bill Cosby mugs so uncontrollably that it looks as if he may be the victim of a muscular disorder in the inane and unfunny...
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Director
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1990
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Roy Parmenter
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1988
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Warren Stantin
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1988
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1986
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In yet another rubber-stamped, mid-'80s teen dancing film, hot on the success of Flashdance, a group of high schoolers called...
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Director
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1984
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Gene Wilder stars as Michael Jordon, an architect on the run from false murder charges, who hooks up with Kate Hellman...
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Director
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1982
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After the excellent audience response to their teaming in Silver Streak, Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor reunited for this zany...
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Director
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1980
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1979
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Director
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1977
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The Wilby Conspiracy is set in South Africa, at a time when Apartheid was the order of the day. Political activist Shack...
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Shack Twala
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1975
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A pair of blue-collar buddies use hypnosis to turn a wimpy boxer into a champ in this crime comedy, which reunites...
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Director, Clyde Williams
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1975
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Director, Steve Jackson
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1974
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The second directorial effort from Academy award-winning actor Sidney Poitier, this romantic drama is about widowed American...
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Director, Dr. Matt Younger
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1973
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Sidney Poitier makes his directorial debut with the 1972 Western Buck and the Preacher, set during the end of the Civil War....
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Director, Buck
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1972
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Police detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) returns to finds himself in hot water with the police over his acceptance of...
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Virgil Tibbs
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1971
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Sidney Poitier stars as John Kane, a heavenly emissary who pays a visit to the Alabama town where he was born. Making it his...
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John Kane
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1970
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Having tackled every known film subject in his long career, from musicals to murder mysteries, Sidney Lumet tries his hand at...
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1970
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Sidney Poitier reprises his role as Virgil Tibbs in this crime drama, a story unrelated to that of the earlier film In the...
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Virgil Tibbs
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1970
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Jason Higgs (Sidney Poitier) is an angry black man who plans to rob a factory payroll. With the help of his accomplices...
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Jason Higgs
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1969
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When it was released in 1968, For Love of Ivy was the first mainstream Hollywood film to depict a mature romantic...
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Screen Story, Jack Parks
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1968
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Sidney Poitier, who in 1955 played a student in a tough inner-city high school, portrays a teacher assigned to a similar...
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Mark Thackeray
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1967
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The winner of the 1967 Oscar for Best Picture (as well as four other Oscars), In the Heat of the Night is set in a small...
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Virgil Tibbs
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1967
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John Prentice
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1967
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Frontier scout Jess Remsberg (James Garner) is crossing the desert when he spots a dead army scout and group of Apaches...
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Toller
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1966
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Sidney Pollack marked his feature film directing debut with this taut suspense drama, based upon an actual incident reported...
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Alan Newell
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1965
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The Bedford Incident was an attempt by Columbia Pictures -- which had previously made Dr. Strangelove and released Fail-Safe...
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Ben Munceford
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1965
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Filmmaker George Stevens chose Monument Valley, Utah for his exterior sequences in The Greatest Story Ever Told, this ($20...
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1965
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Shelley Winters won an Academy Award for her searing performance as Rose-Ann d'Arcy in A Patch of Blue. The star, however, is...
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Gordon Ralfe
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1965
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In this elaborately mounted seafaring adventure, Rolfe (Richard Widmark) is a Viking leader with the cunning and devious mind...
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Aly Mansuh
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1963
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Sidney Poitier plays Homer Smith, an aimless ex-GI who takes a temporary handyman job at a Southwestern farm maintained by...
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Homer Smith
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1963
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Unable to get through to a particularly hostile patient, psychiatrist Peter Falk goes to gray-haired senior shrink...
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Doctor
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1962
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The second film of director Martin Ritt with both Paul Newmanand Sidney Poitier, it's set in a city that has long been a...
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Eddie Cook
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1961
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While this original movie version of Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning play may have dated somewhat, it was groundbreaking...
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Walter Lee Younger
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1961
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Set right near the 38th Parallel, the dividing line between North and South Korea, this conventional wartime tale focuses on...
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Towler
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1960
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Porgy
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1959
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Based on Robb White's novel 3DOur Virgin Island3D (the film's original title), this harmless location-filmed comedy boasts an...
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Marcus
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1958
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Noah Cullen
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1958
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Edge of the City is a modern morality play, acted out in the railyards of New York. AWOL soldier John Cassavetes takes a job...
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Tommy Tyler
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1957
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Filmed on location in Africa, Mark of the Hawk stars Sidney Poitier as a London-educated African who returns to his homeland...
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Oban
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1957
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The literalism of writer-director Richard Brooks serves him well in this meticulously faithful adaptation of the Robert Ruark...
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Kimani
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1957
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RauRu
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1957
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The focus of this heartfelt family film is Skeeter (Brandon de Wilde), a 14-year-old orphan who lives with his aged Uncle...
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Gates
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1956
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In this gritty urban drama, war veteran Richard Dadier (Glenn Ford) wants to begin his career as a teacher and is given an...
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Gregory W. Miller
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1955
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The inspirational story of the famed basketball tricksters The Harlem Globetrotters is chronicled in this drama. The...
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Inman Jackson
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1954
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Red Ball Express deals with the little-known activities of the U.S. Army Transportation Corps during WW II. It so happened...
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1952
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This deliberately paced British film about a black rural priest and a white landowner whose paths cross in 1940s South...
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Rev. Maimangu
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1951
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A pioneering film about racial tensions, No Way Out stars Richard Widmark as a criminal named Ray Biddle, who despises...
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Dr. Luther Brooks
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1950
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