Maya Angelou Movies

Made especially for the HBO cable network, this well-wrought feature is comprised of three short stories by three noted black American authors, each...

A jukebox operator helps promote a calypso craze.

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

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

"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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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.

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

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

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