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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 791.4302 POIPoitier, Sidney.
Summary: Sidney Poitier was the first black actor to win the Academy Award for best actor for his outstanding performance in Lilies on the Field in 1963. His landmark films include The Defiant Ones, A Patch of Blue, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and To Sir, With Love. Among his many accolades, he recieved the Screen Actors Guild's highest honor, the Life Achievement Award for an outstanding career and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2007
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 POITIER, SIDNEY POIPoitier, Sidney.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio PoitierPoitier, Sidney
Summary: An ex-Union Army sergeant leads a group of black freed slaves to their homesteads in the West.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN BUCPoitier, Sidney.
Summary: In this luminous memoir, a true American icon looks back on his celebrated life and career. His body of work is arguably the most morally significant in cinematic history, and the power and influence of that work are indicative of the character of the man behind the many storied roles. Sidney Poitier here explores these elements of character and personal values to take his own measure—as a man,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2007
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Summary: While traveling in the deep south, Virgil Tibbs, a black Philadelphia homicide detective, becomes unwittingly embroiled in a murder case when he is first accused of the crime, and then asked to solve it! Finding the killer proves to be difficult, especially when his efforts are constantly thwarted by the ignorant and bigoted town sheriff. But neither man can solve this case alone. Putting aside...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY InCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie In 2001Summary: 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,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN BUCSummary: "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 by an unbridled hatred towards the other"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 1996
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DEFSummary: Jackal--the greatest assassin in history--out to eliminate a top U.S. government official. Declan Mulqueen, an imprisoned underground operative, is the only man who can stop him. Now, the Deputy Director of the FBI is taking the biggest risk of all ... he's releasing one criminal to stop another.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1998
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD JACCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JaSummary: A teacher in England abandons the traditional curriculum of education in dealing with a class of students rejected by other schools.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family To Sir 1999D'Aulaire, Ingri
Summary: A collection of Greek myths.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD J D'AUD'Aulaire, Ingri
Summary: A collection of Greek myths.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD D'AUSummary: Urban drama about an idealistic teacher in a slum area who fights doggedly to connect with his unruly students. Based on Evan Hunter's novel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Blackboard 2005Summary: When the daughter of well-to-do liberal parents plans to marry a black doctor, both families must sit down face to face and examine each other's level of intolerance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GUECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GUESummary: Passing through the backwoods town of Sparta, Mississippi, Philadelphia detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) becomes embroiled in a murder case. He forms an uneasy alliance with the bigoted police chief (Rod Steiger), who faces mounting pressure from Sparta's hostile citizens to catch the killer and run the African American interloper out of town.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY INSummary: Accidentally blinded as a child, 18-year-old Selina D'Arcey falls in love with a gentle and charming man, Gordon Ralfe, whom she meets in a rare visit to a park. Her racist mother declares that because Gordon is black, their relationship cannot continue, forcing Selina to choose between her family and her heart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment and Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PATSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1999
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RAISummary: Henry spends his time working in the brickyard owned by his family and grieving the loss of his wife. When a young boy enters Henry's life, both man and child find what they desperately need in each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Phase 4 Films 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LASCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Last 2010Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LaSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018