Sidney Poitier: His Own Person

Regarded as cinema’s first Black superstar, Sidney Poitier was an actor, director and activist who broke multiple barriers across a 40+ year career with an impressive roster of pictures that showcased his dazzling vitality and exceptional talent.

This dedicated season looks across Poitier’s long and accomplished career, bringing together early work like No Way Out (1950) and Blackboard Jungle (1955) with Hollywood box office hits like Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) and In The Heat of the Night (1967), and films that Poitier both starred in and directed such as A Warm December (1973) and Stir Crazy (1980).