I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979)

4.3/10 • 96 min • Drama TV Movie

Overview

Based on writer Maya Angelou's eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she and her older brother were raised by their grandmother after the divorce of their parents.

Cast

Paul Benjamin

Freeman

Diahann Carroll

Vivian

Ruby Dee

Grandmother Baxter

Roger E. Mosley

Bailey, Sr.

Esther Rolle

Momma

Madge Sinclair

Miss Flowers

Art Evans

Principal

J. Don Ferguson

Mr. Donleavy

Tonea Stewart

Lillie

Recommendations

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
The Hate U Give
The Glass Castle
Heaven
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B
Disgrace
The Great Debaters
The Lords of Discipline
Frankie & Alice
Skin
Freedom Writers
Starving in Suburbia
Hillbilly Elegy
Boyhood
A Dry White Season
Sounder
The Color Purple
I'm Not Ashamed
Anne of Green Gables