African American Films

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.

CAST includes: Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee

Selena D'Arcy is accidentally blinded by her prostitute mother, Rose-Ann, at the age of five. For the next 13 years she is confined in the tiny Los Angeles apartment that they share with her grandfather. One afternoon at the local park, Selena meets Gordon Ralfe, an office worker whose kind treatment of her results in her falling in love with him, unaware that he is black. They continue to meet in the park every afternoon and he teaches her how to get along in the city. But when Rose-Ann learns of their relationship, she forbids Selena from having anything more to do with him. Selena continues to meet Gordon despite Rose-Ann's fury.

CAST includes: Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman

A teacher in England abandons the traditional curriculum of education in dealing with a class of students rejected by other schools

CAST - Sidney Poitier, Lulu, Judy Geeson, Christian Roberts, Suzy Kendall

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.

CAST - Sidney Poitier, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Katharine Houghton

A black Philadelphia homicide detective reluctantly assists a white sheriff in solving a murder in 1960s North Carolina.


CAST includes: Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger