Filmography

Great Performances
1971 · Acting

American Experience
1988 · Acting

Intimate Portrait
1993 · Acting

Touched by an Angel
1994 · Acting

Moesha
1996 · Acting

American Masters
1986 · Acting

HARDtalk
1997 · Acting

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995 · Acting

Roots
1977 · Acting

The Early Show
1999 · Acting

The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996 · Acting

Iconoclasts
2005 · Acting

The Richard Pryor Show
1977 · Acting
- No Poster
The Gregory Hines Show
1997 · Acting

The Nineties
2017 · Acting

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Acting

America Beyond the Color Line
2004 · Acting

Madea's Family Reunion
2006 · Acting

How to Make an American Quilt
1995 · Acting

Poetic Justice
1993 · Acting

Orwell: 2+2=5
2025 · Acting

Get on the Bus
1996 · Acting

Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration
1993 · Acting

Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
1996 · Acting

Down in the Delta
1998 · Director

The Richard Pryor Special?
1977 · Acting
- No Poster
Assignment America
Acting

Porgy and Bess
1959 · Acting

Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
1994 · Acting
- No Poster
Dr. Maya Angelou's Blacks, Blues, Black!
1969 · Writer, Acting

Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?
2004 · Acting

On the Shoulders of Giants
2011 · Acting

Paul Simon: Under African Skies
2012 · Acting

America's Dream
1996 · Writer

Good Hair
2009 · Acting

The Unfinished Journey
1999 · Acting

The Real Malcolm X
1992 · Acting

I Hope You Dance: The Power and Spirit of Song
2015 · Acting

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
2016 · Acting

Mr. SOUL!
2018 · Acting

Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed
2008 · Acting

The Runaway
2000 · Acting

A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
2021 · Acting

Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words
1987 · Acting

The Power of the Heart
2014 · Acting

Quincy Jones... The First 50 Years
1998 · Acting

Malcolm X: Make It Plain
1994 · Acting

One Night in Vegas
2010 · Acting

Why Is We Americans?
2022 · Acting

James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
1989 · Acting

Calypso Heat Wave
1957 · Acting

Minha Bateria Está Fraca e Está Ficando Tarde
2020 · Acting

There Are No Children Here
1993 · Acting

Daedalus
2024 · Acting

The Enchanted Island Madagascar: The Living Edens
1998 · Acting

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1979 · Writer

The Black Candle
2009 · Acting

Perfect Moment
1997 · Acting

Angelou on Burns
1996 · Acting

Maya Angelou at the BBC
2024 · Acting

Creativity with Bill Moyers: Portrait of Maya Angelou
1982 · Acting

Sister, Sister
1982 · Writer

Papa Césaire
2009 · Acting
- No Poster
Becky and the Birds
2018 · Acting

The Tapestry
1976 · Director

All Day Long
1975 · Director
- No Poster
Sisters in Cinema
2003 · Acting

Georgia, Georgia
1972 · Writer

Kindred Spirits: Contemporary African American Artists
1992 · Acting

Words Are Things
2018 · Acting
