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A raisin in the sun [videorecording (DVD)].

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Criterion Collection, 2018.

American drama -- 20th century -- Film adaptations.

Blacks -- History -- 20th century -- Drama.

Families, Black -- Drama.

Race relations -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 945.

[videorecording (DVD)].

Two-DVD special ed.

1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Based on the play by Lorraine Hansberry.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1961.

Special features: New, restored 4K digital transfer ; interview from 1961 with playwright/screenwriter Lorraine Hansberry ; new interview with Imani Perry, author of Looking for Lorraine ; episode of Theater talk from 2002 featuring producer Philip Rose and actors Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis ; excerpt from Black theatre: the making of a movement (1978), with a new introduction by director Woodie King Jr. ; new interview with film scholar Mia Mask, coeditor of Poitier revisited ; interview from 2002 with director Daniel Petrie ; trailer ; PLUS: an essay by scholar Sarita Cannon and author James Baldwin's 1969 tribute to Hansberry, "Sweet Lorraine."

A selection of the National Film Registry, 2005.

In black and white.

English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Producers, David Susskind and Philip Rose ; screenwriter, Lorraine Hansberry ; director, Daniel Petrie.

Sidney Poitier with Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon and Louis Gossett, Jr.

Social problem films.

Urban drama (Films)

Films for the hearing impaired.

Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965. Raisin in the sun.

Petrie, Daniel.

Poitier, Sidney.

McNeil, Claudia.

Dixon, Ivan, 1931-

Gossett, Louis, Jr., 1936-

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