Sidney Poitier
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Montaro Caine, CEO of the Fitzer Corporation, is losing control of the company he built. At this moment of crisis, a man and woman appear at his office with a coin of unknown provenance, composed of a metal unknown on Earth. Montaro immediately recognizes it as the companion of a coin he analyzed as a graduate student working in a lab at MIT, which was later returned to its unidentified owner. But the value of the coin lies not in its monetary worth...
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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.
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Sidney Poitier is one of the most revered actors in the history of Hollywood. He has overcome enormous obstacles in extraordinary times and is a role model for many Americans because of his convictions, bravery, and grace. Poitier reflects on this amazing life in Life Beyond Measure, offering inspirational advice and personal stories in the form of extended letters to his great-granddaughter. Writing for all who admire his example and who search for...
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In a small southern Georgia community lives Noah Dearborn. He is a master craftsman and farmer who cherishes his solitude. When a greedy real estate developer sets his sights on Noah's land, Noah rejects his offer. Now he must summon all his strength in order to defend his property, his way of life and ultimately his sanity.
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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.
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"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...
10) The Defiant Ones
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Winner of two Oscars® for Best Writing and Cinematography, “THE DEFIANT ONES” broke new ground by delivering its story of racial intolerance through a fast-moving blend of action and suspense. Joker (Tony Curtis) and Noah (Sidney Poitier) are two convicts on the run from a Southern work gang, bound together by an unbreakable iron chain and separated by an unbridled hatred toward each other. Relentlessly pursued by a posse and bloodhounds, they...
13) A Warm December
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Academy Award winner Sidney Poitier stars in and directs this bittersweet romance about a widowed American doctor who, while visiting his daughter in London, meets a falls in love with the niece of an African ambassador, but after a warm and tender love affair, she refuses to marry him because she is dying of sickle-cell anemia.
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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.
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Academy Award winner Sidney Poitier and Emmy Award-winning comedian Bill Cosby star as a couple of blue-collar, jive-talking wannabe con men in LET'S DO IT AGAIN. When an Atlanta milkman (Poitier) and his fast-talking factory worker friend (Cosby) want to take the wives on a long-planned vacation to New Orleans and need to find the cash to build a new meeting house for their fraternal lodge, they devise a long-shot scheme to hypnotize a scrawny, losing...
16) Nationtime
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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...
19) A Patch of Blue
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Blind Selina D'Arcy (Elizabeth Hartman) lives a life of servitude with her mother, Rose-Ann D'Arcy (Shelley Winters), who's a prostitute, and grandfather who's an alcoholic, until the day she goes to the park to string beads for extra cash. There she meets the first kind person she has ever known, Gordon Ralfe (Sidney Poitier). The two quickly develop a deep bond, but Rose-Ann--who can see only bad in any man--tries to separate her daughter from the...
20) The defiant ones
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Two prisoners on a chain gang hate each other, but react in an unexpected way when they are finally free.