The Defiant Ones File

: The film was a critical and commercial success, earning nine Oscar nominations. It is credited with helping solidify Sidney Poitier as a major Hollywood icon and a spokesperson for Black empowerment.

: The men are literally chained together at the wrist. To survive their flight through swamps and backwoods, they are forced to cooperate despite their deep-seated mutual hatred. The Defiant Ones

: The series chronicles how Iovine, a Brooklyn-born producer for artists like Bruce Springsteen and U2, and Dre, a pioneer of N.W.A and West Coast rap, joined forces to create Beats Electronics. : The film was a critical and commercial

The 2017 HBO docu-series directed by borrows the title to frame the "true story" of an equally unlikely partnership between music moguls Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre . To survive their flight through swamps and backwoods,

: Set in the racially segregated South, two convicts— John “Joker” Jackson (Tony Curtis), a white bigot, and Noah Cullen (Sidney Poitier), a defiant Black man—escape from a chain gang following a truck crash.