Sidney Poitier was not expected to live. He was born two months premature to uneducated tomato farmers in the Caribbean. His father planned to use a shoe box as a makeshift coffin. Poitier's rise from ...

The Oprah Winfrey-produced documentary will premiere in September on the streaming service. Apple TV+ just dropped the trailer for “Sidney,” a new documentary from Oprah Winfrey that follows the life ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." Sidney Poitier was a Hollywood legend. The Bahamian-American actor became the first Black actor to ...

In theory there's only so much to be done with a celebrity biography, but when the subject is Sidney Poitier, that's an unusually target-rich environment. "Sidney," a documentary from director ...

During an interview for Apple TV+’s “Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading Men in Hollywood,” Murphy revealed he bumped into Poitier and brought up that he had been approached to play Alex Haley ...

"Early on, Sidney said — I don’t know if it was an insult or a compliment, or something," he begins. "It was like… They were talking about doing Malcolm X. Norman Jewison was putting it together, and ...