Directed by Reginald Hudlin and produced by Oprah Winfrey, the Apple TV+ documentary explores the late film icon’s revolutionary career and civil rights activism.
. Not only was the Oscar-winning legend, who died at age 94 this past January, a deeply magnetic and charismatic performer; he was a radical symbol during Hollywood’s extremely white Golden Age and a rare, unifying force in a segregated country.
These testaments of Poitier’s magnitude as an artist and the effect he had on interracial audiences in the 1950s and ‘60s supply much of, a new documentary from Apple TV+ debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival and available to stream on September 23.the almost 2-hour film is a sweeping examination of the actor’s personal and professional lives and activism during the civil rights movement.
The documentary gives viewers a pretty solid overview of Poitier’s career once he emerged from the theater scene and broke into Hollywood. Actors like Morgan Freeman, Halle Berry andThe Defiant Ones, A Raisin in the Sun, In the Heat of the Night, while critics Nelson George and the late Greg Tate provide some historical context for these characters.
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