Sidney Poitier
Author
Publisher
HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 255 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts actor Sidney Poitier's public and private life as he broke racial barriers to launch a pioneering acting career playing characters who said something positive, useful, and lasting about the human condition. Includes photographs.
3) Nationtime
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1972.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (80 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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...
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1967.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (110 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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.
Series
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 128 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The daughter of white liberal parents brings home her fiance, a distinguished black doctor. Both sets of parents are shocked in spite of themselves and must confront their true feelings about race.
Series
Criterion collection volume 945
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (128 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
Members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred. Following the death of their patriarch, the Youngers await a life insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over how best to use the money.