Maya Angelou Movies

Heated confrontations and revelations result when a divorcee returns with her young son to the home of her two sisters.

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...

Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn...

"Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." Daedalus weaves a tale of ambition and caution through an ancient myth, set in a...

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...

The devastating story of brothers Lafayette and Pharoah Rivers, children of the Chicago ghetto, is powerfully told here by a Wall Street Journal...

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

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

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

Travel to the mysterious island that time forgot -- the island of Madagascar. Nestled in the tranquil waters of the Indian Ocean off the coast of...

The story focuses on Newark's Baraka family and its involvement in social activism, poetry, music, art and politics.

Integration Report 1, Madeline Anderson's trailblazing debut, was the first known documentary by an African American female director. With tenacity,...

A jukebox operator helps promote a calypso craze.

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

I HOPE YOU DANCE: the power and spirit of song is the first full length documentary film to explore how one extraordinary song has transformed...

Aimé Césaire - Le Masque des mots is a portrait of the Martinican writer who calls himself a rebellious negro and for whom the poetic...

A young orphaned boy comes to live with his aunt and discovers that his best friend is having an affair with her.

A singer whose companion hates whites falls for a white U.S. photographer in Sweden.

Bonnie Greer looks back on the extraordinary life of one of literature’s most significant and inspirational figures, Maya Angelou, through an...

A short film based on the self-titled extended play album “Becky and the Birds” by Becky and the Birds (Thea Gustafsson).