Poitier gets an extraordinarily comprehensive and wide-ranging look at his life told in linear fashion and narrated by himself through the use of eight hours of interview footage done in 2012 with Winfrey...

In 2018, Network Entertainment founder Derik Murray met with Sidney Poitier to discuss making a documentary about the star’s life and career. Over the next two years, Murray established a foundation of trust with Poitier and his family, who all eventually agreed to the film...

“The film is an insightful memorial to Poitier’s life and career.”

“Sidney” casts its own warming glow, in a way that sheds light not only Poitier’s path but also the decades in which he carved it out...

Directed by Reginald Hudlin, this Oprah Winfrey-produced documentary is an eloquent rebuke to the ‘sellout’ narrative that bedevilled Poitier’s stellar career...

“Hudlin’s biggest success lies in always keeping two things in play: a sometimes

painful story of unfinished progress, and a gleaming, gleeful salute to a giant.”

“He approached his life as a role model and a mentor,” says Derik Murray of the film, which premieres on AppleTV+ on Sept. 23...

No one is better at telling Sidney Poitier’s story than Sidney Poitier himself. The brilliance of Reginald Hudlin’s documentary for Apple TV+ is that it lets him do just that...

For the genre’s female pioneers, “the music industry was just a gauntlet of assholes that you had to cross through,” Jessica Hopper says of her new Epix docuseries...

Such memorable exchanges between fierce femmes — ranging from Mavis Staples and Janis Joplin to Joan Jett and Debbie Harry to Stevie Nicks and Sheryl Crow — are the heart and highlight of “Women Who Rock...” 

In the series premiere on Sunday night, Women Who Rock digs into the turbulent rock roots of rock n' roll in the 1950s and 60s with Mavis Staples, Janis Joplin, Chaka Kahn and more...