Maya Angelou Movies

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Thea Gustafsson

An exposé of comic proportions that only Chris Rock could pull off, GOOD HAIR visits beauty salons and hairstyling battles, scientific...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Maya Angelou

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Winona Ryder

Still grieving after the murder of her boyfriend, hairdresser Justice writes poetry to deal with the pain of her loss. Unable to get to Oakland to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Janet Jackson

A short about American life and history produced for the millennium New Year's Eve celebration.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bill Clinton

Southern matriarch Madea has a lot on her plate. Her nieces, Vanessa and Lisa, have relationship troubles - Vanessa moves into Madea's house with her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tyler Perry

An American story. Traces the career of Joe Louis (1914-1981) within the context of American racial consciousness: his difficulty getting big fights...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Joe Louis

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lauryn Hill

A jukebox operator helps promote a calypso craze.

Genre: Music

Cast: Johnny Desmond

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Cesar Chavez

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Maya Angelou

Contemporary African-American artists tell how their art and lives have been affected by African influences and their own experiences living as Black...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Maya Angelou

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mike Tyson

The composer-arranger-producer is honored in a tribute taped in 1997.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Quincy Jones

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Pryor

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bonnie Greer

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Isabel Allende

"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...

Genre: Music

Cast: Indy Simin

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...

Genre: Family

Cast: Maya Angelou

A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs and videos, which paint hidden moments of her...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Maya Angelou

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Stephanie Allain

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: James Baldwin

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Norman Lear

Some day we’ll be able to measure the power of words but in the meantime let’s be careful about the words we use.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Maya Angelou

The origins of Kwanzaa and the seven principles upon which the pan-African holiday derives its meaning are explored in this fascinating documentary....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Maya Angelou

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Oprah Winfrey

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Maya Angelou

The story of the Harlem Rens: the greatest basketball team you never heard of.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alfre Woodard

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Aimé Césaire

On the heels of the Civil Rights Movement, one fearless black pioneer reconceived a Harlem Renaissance for a new era, ushering giants and rising...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ellis Haizlip

As the Sars-Covid 19 pandemic increased, Rubiane Maia was in Folkestone, England, and Tom Nobrega in Tarapoto, in the Peruvian Amazon. Both were...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ailton Krenak

This award-winning documentary tells the story of the American poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou’s journey to Ayrshire to visit the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Maya Angelou

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Paul Simon

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Sidney Poitier

Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! was a 1994 TV special that aired on ABC to celebrate Sesame Street's 25th...

Genre: Family

Cast: Joe Pesci