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| Viewing 1 through 10 of 517 total results | | NHL: Sidney Crosby - On the Ice and Beyond Sports NR | 
 | By the end of his second NHL season, Sidney Crosby won a scoring title. He was named Most Valuable Player. He led the Pittsburgh Penguins back to the playoffs and became the youngest full-time captain in league history. What would his third year bring?
Sidney Crosby: On The Ice And Beyond answers that question as you experience a season in Sid's life. In his own words. Exclusive behind the scenes footage shows the 20 year old superstar like you've never seen him before. Ride shotgun with him ...
Cast: Sidney Crosby
Director: | | Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light Documentary NR | 
 | One of the most enduring artists of our time, Sidney Poitier has embodied the aspirations and the contradictions of an era. Still the only black American to receive an Academy Award for Best Actor, he forever altered the racial perceptions held by motion picture audiences and Hollywood executives. The proud and powerful characters he portrayed, combined with electric and dynamic performances, were unlike anything ever seen before. In films such as Blackboard Jungle, A Raisin In The Sun, The Defi...
Cast: Sidney Poitier
Director: | | Sidney Poitier Collection: Heat Of The Night / For Love Of Ivy / Lilies Of The Field / Organization / They Call Me Mr. Tibbs Drama VAR | 
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For Love Of Ivy
Legendary leading man Sidney Poitier and Broadway sensation Abbey Lincoln sizzle in this hip, sexy film about a big-city hustler and the naive suburban housekeeper he sets out to seduce...and then falls for.
In The Heat Of The Night
Sidney Poitier stars as Virgil Tibbs, a Philadelphia homicide detective who unwittingly becomes embroiled in a murder investigation in the Deep South in this powerful mystery thriller that won five Oscars, including Best Picture....
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Martin Landau, Rod Steiger, Lee Grant, Lilia Skala, Nan Martin, Barbara McNair, Beau Bridges, Warren Oates, Anthony Zerbe, Carroll O'Connor
Director: Norman Jewison | | Sidney Bechet - Treat It Gentle Documentary NR | 
 | Sidney Bechet's life was like his playing, passionate, robust and competitive. The first jazz soprano saxophonist, Bechet's reputation was such that, when he died in 1959, three thousand mourners attended his funeral in Juan-les-Pins. He composed and recorded many classic songs with artists including Clarence Williams, Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington and can be credited, among the many young turks of New Orleans, with inventing jazz. This program takes us on a journey from Beche...
Cast: Woody AllenArtists:, Sidney Bechet, Claude Luter, Humphrey Lyttelton, Michael White, Wynton Marsalis, Bob Wilber
Director: | | Directors: Sidney Lumet Special Interest NR | 
 | Profiles of today's most acclaimed directors featuring extensive film clips and interviews with Hollywood's leading stars.
A Philadelphia native, Sydney Lumet grew up on New York's Lower East Side and became a child actor, appearing on Broadway by age 12. After serving in World War II, Lumet organized and directed an off- Broadway theater group, before going on to direct hundreds of shows during the early days of live television. His 1957 features film debut, 12 Angry Men, garnered Oscar nomi...
Cast: Sidney Lumet
Director: Robert J. Emery | | Jazz Masters Series - Bob Wilber - A Tribute to Sidney Bechet Music & Concert NR | 
 | Jazz Masters Series
Bob Wilber salutes New Orleans jazz legend Sidney Bechet in a tribute concert featuring swinging versions of songs Bechet helped popularize. Sidney Bechet was the first to bring the passionate sound of the soprano sax to jazz, playing with all the top musicians of his day including Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. Now it is the instrument of choice for many jazz super stars such as Branford Marsalis, Steve Lacy and Kenny G. Wilber's association with the music of Sidney Be...
Cast: Bob Wilber
Director: Clark Santee | | Buck and the Preacher Westerns PG | 
 | "Packed with Action!" - CUE magazine
Widely regarded at the time of its release as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with a social conscience, Buck and the Preacher is an immensely satisfying Western which marked Sidney Poitier's directorial debut, as well as his first screen pairing with superstar Harry Belafonte.
Poitier stars as Buck, an ex-Union Army Calvary sergeant who becomes a scout for freed slaves heading to the Colorado frontier. Tagging along with him are his wife (Ruby D...
Cast: Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Cameron Mitchell
Director: Sidney Poitier | | Let's Do It Again Comedy PG | 
 | A knockout comedy that pulls no punches!
Shaka Lodge treasurer Billy (Bill Cosby) and his buddy Clyde (Sidney Poitier) hatch a foolproof scheme to fill the Lodge's nearly empty coffers by betting on a longshot fighter (Jimmie Walker) transformed into a champion via hypnotic suggestion. They pull it off without a hitch... until the local mob pays them a call.
Comic heavyweights Cosby and Poitier (who also directs) do it again with this equally funny follow-up to their Uptown Saturday Night t...
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Jimmie Walker, Calvin Lockhart
Director: Sidney Poitier | | A Piece of the Action / Uptown Saturday Night Comedy PG | 
 | Uptown, All-Around Fun With Poitier And Cosby!
The ideal comedy for any night is Uptown Saturday Night, a breezy joy pairing Sidney Poitier (who also directs) and Bill Cosby as pals out to recover a stolen wallet and the winning lottery ticket it holds. Henry Belafonte, Richard Pryor and Flip Wilson are also in this "fast, funny immensely likable film" (Chicago Daily News). It's Poitier and Cosby again in A Piece of the Action, portraying wily crooks who rip off the rip-off artists exploiting t...
Cast: James Earl Jones, Richard Pryor, Sidney Poitier, Rosalind Cash, Paula Kelly, Bill Cosby, Roscoe Lee Browne, Johnny Sekka
Director: Sidney Poitier | | Uptown Saturday Night Comedy PG | 
 | Working stiff Steve (Sidney Poitier) thinks he's hit the jackpot. he and pal Wardell (Bill Cosby) are living it up at a posh after-hours club - until masked bandits steal all the patrons' loot. Safely home, Steve picks up the newspaper and reads he really has hit the jackpot... with a lottery ticket tucked in his stolen wallet!
Get down with the buoyant bang-up comedy as straight-arrow Poitier (who also directs) and funky, frisky Cosby cavort with such stellar uptown talent as Richard Pryor...
Cast: Richard Pryor, Sidney Poitier, Paula Kelly, Rosalind Cash, Bill Cosby, Harry Belafonte, Calvin Lockhart, Flip Wilson
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