Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood
2023•52m•3.0•Released
Documentary
Exceptionally talented actor and bridge-builder between black and white, a political icon and artist at the same time: that was Sidney Poitier. He made Hollywood history in 1964 when he became the first black man to win an Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role − and thus became the first international black superstar. He grew up in poor circumstances in the Bahamas − with only a few years of schooling. Despite this humble start, Sidney Poitier became a film legend committed artistically and politically against all odds. What compromises did he have to make? What shaped him? This documentary gives an intimate insight into the eventful life of the actor and director, who died in January 2022 at the age of 94.
Director
Katja Runge
Writer
Katja Runge, Henning van Lil
Languages
English, German
Studio
Florianfilm
Cast
Sidney Poitier
Self (archive footage)
Lee Grant
Self
Constance Towers
Self
Foster Hirsch
Self
Joanna Shimkus
Self (archive) - Sidney Poitier's second wife
Sydney Tamiia Poitier
Self (archive) - Sydney Poitier's daughter
Recommended
7
Sidney
2022
7.1
Mifune: The Last Samurai
2016
6.9
Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011
7.1
I Know That Voice
2014
7.4
I Am Heath Ledger
2017
7.9
13th
2016
7.2
QT8: The First Eight
2019
7.6
Night Will Fall
2014
7.5
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
2017
6.7
Sherman's March
1985
7.1
Milius
2013
7.4
Love, Antosha
2019
7.2
To Be Takei
2014
7.7
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000
7.1
Audrey
2020
6.5
Heart of a Dog
2015
6.8
I Am Ali
2014
7.2
Sly
2023
7.6
Spielberg
2017
5.9
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018
Similar Movies
7
Pantani: The Accidental Death of a Cyclist
2014
7.2
The Red Elvis
2007
The Colonel's Playbook
2021
7
Madonna, 40 ans de tubes et de scandales
2023
6.8
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band
2020
7.1
More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story
2021
The Guerilla is a Poet
2013
10
Lulu, Climbing Route Opener
2023
Breath of Freedom
2014
5.8
The Cinema of Carl Th. Dreyer
1982
6.7
Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind
2019
Robin Schulz - The Movie
2017
6.2
I, Claude Monet
2017
Vezmu-li to, oprátka mne nemine
1995
Kancha Sherpa: Last of the First from the 1953 Conquest of Mt Everest
0
10
The Silence of the Princess
2014
7
Shania Twain: Not Just a Girl
2022
6
The Black List: Volume Two
2009
7.2
Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars
2018
10
Drawn from Memory
1995