Maya Angelou Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.