A raisin in the sun
(DVD) 

Originally released as a motion picture in 1961.

Based on the stage play by Lorraine Hansberry, produced on the stage by Philip Rose and David J. Cogan.

Special features: New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack 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"

Music by Laurence Rosenthal ; director of photography, Charles Lawton, Jr. ; editors, William A. Lyon, Paul Weatherwax.

Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon, John Fiedler, Louis Gossett, Stephen Perry, Joel Fluellen, Louis Terkel, Roy Glenn.

Film of the award-winning play about a struggling black family living on Chicago's South Side and the impact of an unexpected insurance bequest. Each family member sees the bequest as the means of realizing dreams and of escape from grinding frustrations.

MWT rating: NR.

DVD.

English audio.

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.