American Experience
1988
star 6.6
TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understand...
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Acting
Maya Angelou
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.
Filmography
Browse movies and TV shows featuring Maya Angelou
Great Performances
1971
star 6.1
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfo...
Touched by an Angel
1994
star 7.2
Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossro...
American Masters
1986
star 7.3
American Masters is a PBS television series which produces biographies on enduring writers, musicians, visual a...
Intimate Portrait
1993
star 4.5
Intimate Portrait is a biographical television series on the Lifetime Television cable network focusing on diff...
Moesha
1996
star 7.1
The everyday life of Moesha Mitchell, a vivacious young woman juggling romance, school, ever-changing family dy...
Roots
1977
star 7.4
The epic tale of celebrated Pulitzer-prize winning author Alex Haley's ancestors as portrayed in the acclaimed...
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
star 6.3
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child is an American anthology animated television series.
The Nineties
2017
star 6.9
Hit rewind and explore the most iconic moments and influential people of The Nineties, the decade that gave us...
Iconoclasts
2005
star 7.5
In this Sundance Channel original series, leading innovators and creative visionaries come together to discuss...
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
star 4.1
The Rosie O'Donnell Show was an American daytime television talk show hosted and produced by actress and comedi...
HARDtalk
1997
star 8.7
In-depth interviews with hard-hitting questions and sensitive topics being covered as famous personalities from...
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
star 8.8
Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the ser...
Poetic Justice
1993
star 6.7
Still grieving after the murder of her boyfriend, hairdresser Justice writes poetry to deal with the pain of he...
The Gregory Hines Show
1997
star 10.0
The Gregory Hines Show is an American television sitcom that aired on CBS. The series premiered on Monday, Sept...
The Early Show
1999
star 6.3
The Early Show is an American morning television show which was broadcast by CBS from New York City from 1999 t...
Madea's Family Reunion
2006
star 6.4
Southern matriarch Madea has a lot on her plate. Her nieces, Vanessa and Lisa, have relationship troubles - Van...
America Beyond the Color Line
2004
star 7.5
Henry Louis Gates Jr., Harvard's chair of Afro-American Studies, travels the length and breadth of the United S...
The Richard Pryor Show
1977
star 6.4
The Richard Pryor Show is an American comedy variety series starring Richard Pryor. It premiered on NBC on Tues...
How to Make an American Quilt
1995
star 6.4
Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. I...
Orwell: 2+2=5
2025
star 7.2
George Orwell was one of the most visionary authors of the 20th century, whose novels 1984 and Animal Farm fore...
The Unfinished Journey
1999
star 6.5
A multimedia short created for the U.S. millennium celebrations, The Unfinished Journey reflects on America’s h...
Good Hair
2009
star 6.6
An exposé of comic proportions that only Chris Rock could pull off, GOOD HAIR visits beauty salons and hairstyl...
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
1994
star 7.0
Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! was a 1994 TV special that aired on ABC to cele...
Assignment America
A weekly series with alternating interviewer: Harvard psycho-historian Doris Kerns; poet, playwright and author...
Get on the Bus
1996
star 6.4
Fifteen Black men gather in South Central LA to take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March i...
Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration
1993
star 7.0
Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration is a special produced forSesame Street’s 25th anniversary. Released in...
Porgy and Bess
1959
star 6.3
In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black f...
Daedalus
2024
star 10.0
"Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." A 7 day vlog during the summer of 2023, a s...
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
1996
star 6.0
Can there be such a thing as too much Christmas? Find out... when a magical Christmas wish is granted and Elmo...
Calypso Heat Wave
1957
star 9.0
A jukebox operator helps promote a calypso craze.
Mr. SOUL!
2018
star 7.0
On the heels of the Civil Rights Movement, one fearless black pioneer reconceived a Harlem Renaissance for a ne...
Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed
2008
star 7.0
An American story. Traces the career of Joe Louis (1914-1981) within the context of American racial consciousne...
A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
2021
Song for Cesar is a documentary film with a unique view of the life and legacy of Cesar Chavez and the farmwork...
Quincy Jones... The First 50 Years
1998
The composer-arranger-producer is honored in a tribute taped in 1997.
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
2016
star 8.0
A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs and videos,...