Maya Angelou
Birthday: 1928-04-04
Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Biography: Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees.
Movies
Becky and the Birds
A short film based on the self-titled extended play album “Becky and the Birds” by Becky and the Bir...
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Good Hair
An exposé of comic proportions that only Chris Rock could pull off, GOOD HAIR visits beauty salons a...
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How to Make an American Quilt
Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheatin...
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Poetic Justice
Still grieving after the murder of her boyfriend, hairdresser Justice writes poetry to deal with the...
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The Unfinished Journey
A multimedia short created for the U.S. millennium celebrations, The Unfinished Journey reflects on ...
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Madea's Family Reunion
Southern matriarch Madea has a lot on her plate. Her nieces, Vanessa and Lisa, have relationship tro...
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Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed
An American story. Traces the career of Joe Louis (1914-1981) within the context of American racial ...
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Why Is We Americans?
The story focuses on Newark's Baraka family and its involvement in social activism, poetry, music, a...
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A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
Song for Cesar is a documentary film with a unique view of the life and legacy of Cesar Chavez and t...
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The Enchanted Island Madagascar: The Living Edens
Travel to the mysterious island that time forgot -- the island of Madagascar. Nestled in the tranqui...
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Kindred Spirits: Contemporary African American Artists
Contemporary African-American artists tell how their art and lives have been affected by African inf...
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One Night in Vegas
On the evening of Sept. 7, 1996, Mike Tyson, the WBC heavyweight champion, attempted to take Bruce S...
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Quincy Jones...The First 50 Years
The composer-arranger-producer is honored in a tribute taped in 1997....
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The Richard Pryor Special?
Richard Pryor wanders around the NBC Studio, encountering various eccentrics. Meanwhile, the Reveren...
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Maya Angelou at the BBC
Bonnie Greer looks back on the extraordinary life of one of literature’s most significant and inspir...
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The Power of the Heart
From the director of ‘THE SECRET’ comes this unparalleled and life-changing film about the astonishi...
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Daedalus
"Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." A 7 day vlog during the summer o...
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Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
Can there be such a thing as too much Christmas? Find out... when a magical Christmas wish is grante...
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Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs a...
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Sisters in Cinema
Explores the careers of twenty black women working as film directors....
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James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
James Baldwin was at once a major 20th century American author, a Civil Rights activist and, for two...
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Perfect Moment
In this documentary, artist-filmmaker Nicholas Hondrogen asks people to describe memorable moments o...
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Words Are Things
Some day we’ll be able to measure the power of words but in the meantime let’s be careful about the ...
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The Black Candle
The origins of Kwanzaa and the seven principles upon which the pan-African holiday derives its meani...
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There Are No Children Here
The devastating story of brothers Lafayette and Pharoah Rivers, children of the Chicago ghetto, is p...
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I Hope You Dance: The Power and Spirit of Song
I HOPE YOU DANCE: the power and spirit of song is the first full length documentary film to explore ...
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On the Shoulders of Giants
The story of the Harlem Rens: the greatest basketball team you never heard of....
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Malcolm X: Make It Plain
Narrated by actress Alfre Woodard, this trenchant, eye-opening doc traces the radical civil rights l...
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Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words
Aimé Césaire - Le Masque des mots is a portrait of the Martinican writer who calls himself a rebelli...
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Mr. SOUL!
On the heels of the Civil Rights Movement, one fearless black pioneer reconceived a Harlem Renaissan...
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Minha Bateria Está Fraca e Está Ficando Tarde
As the Sars-Covid 19 pandemic increased, Rubiane Maia was in Folkestone, England, and Tom Nobrega in...
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Angelou on Burns
This award-winning documentary tells the story of the American poet and civil rights activist Maya A...
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Paul Simon: Under African Skies
Paul Simon returns to South Africa to explore the incredible journey of his historic Graceland album...
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Porgy and Bess
In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home t...
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Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! was a 1994 TV special that aired on ...
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The Runaway
At the birth of two boys, one white and one black, a mysterious and powerful Conjure Woman (Maya Ang...
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Papa Césaire
Shortly after his death in 2008, Maldoror made this film about her longtime friend and collaborator,...
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Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?
Come one, come all for Sesame Street's 35th anniversary musical gathering! Is there one song the who...
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The Real Malcolm X
CBS News looks at Malcolm X, focusing on his public life from 1959 to his assassination in 1965, sug...
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Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration
Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration is a special produced forSesame Street’s 25th anniversary. ...
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Orwell: 2+2=5
George Orwell was one of the most visionary authors of the 20th century, whose novels 1984 and Anima...
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