Maya Angelou Movies

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

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

In this documentary profile, Bill Moyers travels with Maya Angelou to Stamps, Arkansas, the segregated Southern town where she grew up. Revisiting...

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

Shortly after his death in 2008, Maldoror made this film about her longtime friend and collaborator, the Négritude poet Aimé...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.