Sidney Poitier
Author
Language
English
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Description
The bestselling author and American icon offers lessons from his own remarkable life in the form of letters to his great-grandaughter
The author of The Measure of a Man and one of the most revered actors in the history of Hollywood offers a book that features inspirational advice and personal stories from his extraordinary life. Written in the form of extended letters to his new great-granddaughter, Sidney Poitier offers perspective
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Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Description
A baby is born with a coin in her hand. An orphan crafts a mysterious wooden object. The CEO of a large corporation finds himself under extraordinary pressure at work and home, and on a remote hilltop on a Caribbean island a medicine man seems to understand the meaning of all these events and to hold the key to the future.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Language
English
Description
The follow-up to THE MEASURE OF A MAN, Sidney Poitier’s bestselling memoir that was also a popular selection for Oprah’s Book club!
Sidney Poitier shares both personal stories and inspirational advice through the format of letters written to his great-granddaughter. He offers the perspective and wisdom gained through his remarkable life, and discusses the importance of his family throughout.
5) Nationtime
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1972.
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
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Crusading newspaper publisher Matt Drayton's liberal principles are put to the test when his daughter, Joey, announces her engagement to John Prentice, an internationally renowned African-American physician. While Matt's wife, Christina, readily accepts Joey's decision, Matt intends to withhold his consent, forgetting that when it comes to matters of the heart, true love is colorblind.
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1967.
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.
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Based on the ground-breaking Brown vs. the Board of Education case in 1954; viewers follow a young Thurgood Marshall, the lawyer who argued the racially-charged lawsuit before the Supreme Court. When the black students of Clarendon County, South Carolina are denied their request for a single school bus, a bitter and courageous battle for justice and equality begins.
10) Sneakers
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
When computer expert Martin Bishop and his team of renegade hackers are blackmailed into carrying out a covert operation to recover a mysterious black box, they discover factions from all sides are willing to kill for it.
11) Nationtime
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathered voices from across the political spectrum.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1140
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
With his rousingly entertaining directorial debut, Sidney Poitier helped rewrite the history of the western, bringing Black heroes to a genre in which they had always been sorely underrepresented. Combining boisterous buddy comedy with blistering, Black Power-era political fury, Poitier and a marvelously mischievous Harry Belafonte star as a tough and taciturn wagon master and an unscrupulous, pistol-packing "preacher," who join forces to take on...
Series
Criterion collection volume 945
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
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.
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Free spirited ex-G.I. and unemployed construction worker Homer Smith stops at a remote farm in the Arizona desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of German refugee Catholic nuns, headed by the strict Mother Maria, who believes that Homer has been sent by God to build a much-needed church in the desert.
16) Paris blues
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Ram and Eddie are two jazz musicians living in Paris. When they meet and fall in love with two young American girls, Ram and Eddie must decide whether they should move back to America with them or stay in Paris.
Author
Language
English
Description
"I doubt I would have grown up to be the writer and artist I became had I not fallen in love with D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths at the age of seven."—R. J. Palacio, author of Wonder
Kids can lose themselves in a world of myth and magic while learning important cultural history in this beloved classic collection of Greek mythology. Now updated with a new cover and an afterword featuring never-before-published...
Kids can lose themselves in a world of myth and magic while learning important cultural history in this beloved classic collection of Greek mythology. Now updated with a new cover and an afterword featuring never-before-published...
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