Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise(2016)

🎬112 min
📅2016-10-14
🎭Documentary
8.0/10

Overview

A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs and videos, which paint hidden moments of her exuberant life during some of America’s most defining civil rights moments. From her upbringing in the Depression-era South to her swinging soirees with Malcolm X in Ghana to her inaugural speech for President Bill Clinton, we are given special access to interviews with Dr. Angelou whose indelible charm and quick wit make it easy to love her.

Production

American Masters Pictures, ITVS, Artemis Rising, JustFilms / Ford Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Corporation for Public Broadcasting

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Cast

Maya Angelou
as Self (archive footage)
Bill Clinton
as Self
Hillary Clinton
as Self
Common
as Self
Louis Gossett Jr.
as Self
Guy Johnson
as Self
Cicely Tyson
as Self
Oprah Winfrey
as Self
Alfre Woodard
as Self
John Singleton
as Self