Sidney Poitier
          Director, Actor  
	
	Films to Rent  on DVD
				 
	  
	        
 Cry, The Beloved Country (1951) Cry, The Beloved Country (1951)
- Dir. Zoltan Korda
 Feat. Sidney Poitier, Joyce Carey, Canada Lee…
- Deeply felt racial drama has Rev. Sidney Poitier encountering South African–style bigotry as he searches for his son in Johannesburg. 
 Blackboard Jungle, The (1955) Blackboard Jungle, The (1955)
- Dir. Richard Brooks
 Feat. Glenn Ford, Sidney Poitier, Vic Morrow
- Famously controversial on release and first of the 'Rock–n–roll' films, this lifted the lid on the heated youth tensions in 50s America.…
 Defiant Ones, The (1958) Defiant Ones, The (1958)
- Dir. Stanley Kramer
 Feat. Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier
- That well known image of race–hatred – escaped black and white prisoners unwillingly handcuffed together – originated here, with…
 Raisin in the Sun (1961) Raisin in the Sun (1961)
- Dir. Daniel Petrie
 Feat. Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee…
- Rounded drama about the struggles of black family living in Chicago in the 1940s, that was ground–breaking in its day and features several…
 Paris Blues (1961) Paris Blues (1961)
- Dir. Martin Ritt
 Feat. Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier, Joanne Woodward…
- Undernourished romantic drama has Newman and Poitier as Jazz musicians on holiday in Paris forced to decide whether to stay or return to the U.S. for…
 Long Ships, The (1963) Long Ships, The (1963)
- Dir. Jack Cardiff
 Feat. Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn
- Expensively produced Viking epic has the Nordic warrior Widmark clash with Moorish general Poitier over a mythical treasure, the 'Golden Bell of St…
 Bedford Incident, The (1965) Bedford Incident, The (1965)
- Dir. James B. Harris
 Feat. Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier
- Excellent Cold war navy thriller in which an US captain (Richard Widmark) treads the nuclear tightrope in obsessive pursuit of a Russian sub. 
 Duel at Diablo (1965) Duel at Diablo (1965)
- Dir. Ralph Nelson
 Feat. Sidney Poitier, James Garner
- Violent, off–beat Cowboys–and–Indians conflict successfully revives the formula. With Sidney Poitier, and James Garner in a sober…
 Patch of Blue, A (1965) Patch of Blue, A (1965) 
- Dir. Guy Green
 Feat. Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman
- Near flawless film about the friendship between a blind, uneducated girl and a black man she meets in the park, who becomes determined to help her…
 To Sir with Love (1966) To Sir with Love (1966) 
- Dir. James Clavell
 Feat. Sidney Poitier, Lulu
- Sidney Poitier instructs a class of cheeky, wayward teenagers in this feel–good classic of British cinema.