Sidney Poitier
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Montaro Caine, CEO of the Fitzer Corporation, is losing control of the company he built. At this moment of crisis, a man and woman appear at his office with a coin of unknown provenance, composed of a metal unknown on Earth. Montaro immediately recognizes it as the companion of a coin he analyzed as a graduate student working in a lab at MIT, which was later returned to its unidentified owner. But the value of the coin lies not in its monetary worth...
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The follow-up to THE MEASURE OF A MAN, Sidney Poitier’s bestselling memoir that was also a popular selection for Oprah’s Book club!
Sidney Poitier shares both personal stories and inspirational advice through the format of letters written to his great-granddaughter. He offers the perspective and wisdom gained through his remarkable life, and discusses the importance of his family throughout.
8) Hanky panky
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Michael Jordan, (Gene Wilder), is an innocent bystander turned victim. Kate Hellman, (Gilda Radner), falls in love with him while looking for her brother's murderers.
11) A warm December
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Dr. Matt Younger and his daughter have arrived in London for a month long visit. They are there for dirt-bike racing competition and unexpectedly, the widowed Dr. Younger begins a new romance. His new love interest is the beautiful and playful Catherine who seems to enjoy eluding Dr. Younger as much as she enjoys eluding the mysterious men who are following her. Their romance develops gradually and Dr. Younger begins to understand what is going on...
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Based on the ground-breaking Brown vs. the Board of Education case in 1954; viewers follow a young Thurgood Marshall, the lawyer who argued the racially-charged lawsuit before the Supreme Court. When the black students of Clarendon County, South Carolina are denied their request for a single school bus, a bitter and courageous battle for justice and equality begins.
13) The Jackal
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Jackal--the greatest assassin in history--out to eliminate a top U.S. government official. Declan Mulqueen, an imprisoned underground operative, is the only man who can stop him. Now, the Deputy Director of the FBI is taking the biggest risk of all ... he's releasing one criminal to stop another.
16) Shoot to kill
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A city cop and a wilderness expert team up to capture a psychopathic thief and murderer who has escaped to the wild.
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"Along with a number of political detainees, Nelson Mandela (Poitier) was sentenced to life in prison in 1964. The incarceration of Mandela would become a symbol of the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa. Presedent F.W de Klerk (Caine) stood before Parliament and announced the legalization of the African National Congress and Nelson Mandela to be released. But the world know little about the momentous occasion until now: Mandela & De Klerk...
18) Stir crazy
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Two zany drifters are mistakenly sent to prison for a robbery they didn't commit. They must rely on their wits in order to survive a sadistic warden, a hulking mass-murderer and worst of all, the inter-prison rodeo.
20) Edge of the city
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If you need a job Charlie Malik can find a spot for you in the dockside railyards. All he needs in return is that you show up on time, work hard, and kick back part of your pay. Two New York City longshoremen, Axel Nordmann, an Army deserter, and Tommy Tyler, an easy-going freight car loader, join forces against a corrupt New York waterfront union official. The two share a bond that cuts across society's black/white divide.