Maya Angelou Movies

  • 1976
    The Tapestry

    The Tapestry

    The Tapestry

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    A television drama directed by Maya Angelou. In 1975, the accomplished writer became the first African American woman to join the Directors Guild of...

    The Tapestry
  • 2004
    Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?

    Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?

    Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?

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    Come one, come all for Sesame Street's 35th anniversary musical gathering! Is there one song the whole world can sing together? Find out when Super...

    Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?
  • 2021
    A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings

    A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings

    A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings

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    Song for Cesar is a documentary film with a unique view of the life and legacy of Cesar Chavez and the farmworker movement. The film tells a...

    A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
  • 2014
    The Power of the Heart

    The Power of the Heart

    The Power of the Heart

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    From the director of ‘THE SECRET’ comes this unparalleled and life-changing film about the astonishing power and intelligence of your...

    The Power of the Heart
  • 1996
    Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas

    Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas

    Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas

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    Can there be such a thing as too much Christmas? Find out... when a magical Christmas wish is granted and Elmo gets to see what the world would be...

    Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
  • 1997
    Perfect Moment

    Perfect Moment

    Perfect Moment

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    In this documentary, artist-filmmaker Nicholas Hondrogen asks people to describe memorable moments of their lives. Some, such as Norman Lear and...

    Perfect Moment
  • 1998
    Down in the Delta

    Down in the Delta

    Down in the Delta

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    A single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to her ancestral home in the Mississippi Delta, to live...

    Down in the Delta
  • 1959
    Porgy and Bess

    Porgy and Bess

    Porgy and Bess

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    In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar...

    Porgy and Bess
  • 1992
    The Real Malcolm X

    The Real Malcolm X

    The Real Malcolm X

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    CBS News looks at Malcolm X, focusing on his public life from 1959 to his assassination in 1965, suggesting that his death was a great loss to the...

    The Real Malcolm X
  • 1977
    The Richard Pryor Special?

    The Richard Pryor Special?

    The Richard Pryor Special?

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    Richard Pryor wanders around the NBC Studio, encountering various eccentrics. Meanwhile, the Reverend James L. White, the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin...

    The Richard Pryor Special?
  • 1989
    James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket

    James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket

    James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket

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    James Baldwin was at once a major 20th century American author, a Civil Rights activist and, for two crucial decades, a prophetic voice calling...

    James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
  • 2012
    Paul Simon: Under African Skies

    Paul Simon: Under African Skies

    Paul Simon: Under African Skies

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    Paul Simon returns to South Africa to explore the incredible journey of his historic Graceland album, including the political backlash he received...

    Paul Simon: Under African Skies
  • 2000
    The Runaway

    The Runaway

    The Runaway

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    At the birth of two boys, one white and one black, a mysterious and powerful Conjure Woman (Maya Angelou) prophesies that they will start the change....

    The Runaway
  • 2024
    Daedalus

    Daedalus

    Daedalus

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    "Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." A 7 day vlog during the summer of 2023, a story of dreamers and drowners.

    Daedalus
  • 1979
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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    Based on writer Maya Angelou's eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she...

    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
  • 1957
    Calypso Heat Wave

    Calypso Heat Wave

    Calypso Heat Wave

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    A jukebox operator helps promote a calypso craze.

    Calypso Heat Wave
  • 2024
    Wild & Free

    Wild & Free

    Wild & Free

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    In a world where dogs do human things, a husky riding out the pandemic in her house loses her job and relationship on the same day, so she hits the...

    Wild & Free
  • 2010
    One Night in Vegas

    One Night in Vegas

    One Night in Vegas

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    On the evening of Sept. 7, 1996, Mike Tyson, the WBC heavyweight champion, attempted to take Bruce Seldon’s WBA title at the MGM Grand in Las...

    One Night in Vegas
  • 2003
    Sisters in Cinema

    Sisters in Cinema

    Sisters in Cinema

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    Explores the careers of twenty black women working as film directors.

    Sisters in Cinema
  • 1994
    Malcolm X: Make It Plain

    Malcolm X: Make It Plain

    Malcolm X: Make It Plain

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    Narrated by actress Alfre Woodard, this trenchant, eye-opening doc traces the radical civil rights leader’s life from his tumultuous childhood,...

    Malcolm X: Make It Plain