To Sir With Love
(1967) [PG]

A novice teacher faces a class of rowdy, undisciplined working-class punks in this classic film that reflected some of the problems and fears of the teens in the 60's. SIDNEY POITIER gives one of his finest performances as Mark Thackeray, an out of work engineer who turns to teaching in London's...  More

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
(1967) [PG]

Nominated for 10 1968 Academy Awards®, this masterpiece of modern cinema features powerhouse performances by an impressive cast of Academy Award ® Winners. A heart-warming tale of love in the face of adversity, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner is made even more poignant by the fact that it was to...  More

The Bedford Incident
(1965) [G]

Academy Award® Winner SIDNEY POITIER headlines a first-rate cast - including RICHARD WIDMARK and MARTIN BALSAM - in this ‘grim, all to realistic cold war thriller’ that treads similar territory to THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER and CRIMSON TIDE. A taut and engaging psychological thriller about an...  More

The Defiant Ones
(1958) [PG]

remains "a raw, powerful film that is as exciting as it is moving, real and literate" (Variety). Joker Jackson (Tony Curtis) and Noah Cullen (Sidney Poitier) are two convicts on the run. Escaping from a Southern work gang, the two men are bound together by an unbreakable iron chain and separated...  More

In The Heat Of The Night
(1967) [M]

While traveling in the deep south, Virgil Tibbs, a black Philadelphia homicide detective, becomes unwittingly embroiled in the murder investigation of a prominent businessman when he is first accused of the crime - and then asked to solve it! Finding the killer proves to be difficult, however,...  More

Blackboard Jungle
(1955) [PG]

A teacher in a New York slum school fights to win the respect of his pupils. The opening credits are backed by Bill Haley's 'Rock Around The Clock' - the first-ever use of rock music in a feature film.

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They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
(1970) [M]

Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) is a veteran homicide detective, investigating the murder of a prostitute. The primary suspect is San Francisco political activist Reverend Logan Sharpe (Martin Landau), the last person seen with the victim. On the home front, after dealing with the criminal element...  More

The Organization
(1971) [M]

Academy Award winner Sidney Poitier reprises his role as Lt. Virgil Tibbs in this taut drama that exposes the ruthless, high-stakes world of international drug trafficking. Co-starring Raul Julia this action-packed crime thriller is edge-of-the-seat entertainment. Under the cover of darkness, six...  More

The Long Ships
(1963) [PG]

The Long Ships is a rollicking, action-packed Viking adventure saga starring Richard Widmark (Best Supporting Actor Oscar® nominee, Kiss of Death, 1947) and Sidney Poitier (Oscar®-winning Best Actor, Lilies of the Field, 1963). Viking brothers Rolfe (Widmark) and Orm (Russ Tamblyn, West Side...  More

Paris Blues
(1961) [M]

Ram Bowen (Paul Newman) and Eddie Cook (Sidney Poitier) are two expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris where, unlike America at the time, Jazz musicians are celebrated and racism is a non-issue. When they meet and fall in love with two young American girls, Lillian (Joanne Woodward) and Connie...  More