TY - ADVS TI - Sensational Sidney Poitier -: Binge Box PY - 2022/// CY - [Place of publication not identified] : PB - Binge Box KW - Teachers KW - Drama KW - African-American detectives KW - African-American men N1 - The defiant ones / NR, Director Stanley Kramer -- A raisin in the sun / NR, Director Daniel Petrie -- Lilies of the field / NR, Director Ralph Nelson -- Guess who's coming to dinner / NR, Director Stanley Kramer -- In the heat of the night / NR, Director Norman Jewison -- To sir, with love / NR, Director James Clavell; Sidney Poitier, Tony Curtis, Theodore Bikel, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Lilia Skala, Lisa Mann, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Christian Roberts, Judy Geeson N2 - The defiant ones -- Two escaped convicts, chained together, must learn to get along in order to evade recapture. (1958); A raisin in the sun -- A poor family living in a cramped Chicago apartment receives an insurance payment that could either make or ruin them. (1961); Lilies of the field -- An itinerant handyman meets five impoverished nuns in the Arizona desert, who convince him to start building them a chapel for free. (!966); Guess who's coming to dinner -- A white couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home her black fiance. (1967); In the heat of the night -- A black detective from Philadelphia is asked to investigate the murder of a prominent businessman in a racist southern town. (1967); To sir, with love -- An out-of-work engineer turns to a teaching job where he must deal with students from London's tough East End. (1967) ER -