Cicely Tyson Movies

Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're...

Free to Be…You and Me, a project of the Ms. Foundation for Women, is a record album, and illustrated book first released in November 1972,...

Cicely Tyson was Emmy-nominated as Outstanding Actress for her portrait of a Chicago schoolteacher whose remarkable achievements with black children...

After ex-con Joe Braxton violates his probation, he is given a second chance. All he has to do is drive a group of special kids across the country.

In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing a a white store owner. In his defense, his white attorney equates him...

A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.

A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.

A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.

A seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.

Dr. Sam Abelman is a Jewish doctor contentedly spending his autumn years serving his own Brooklyn neighborhood. But when his nephew, would-be...

In the 1940s a 40-year-old woman with five healthy children gives birth to a girl with Down's syndrome.

The manager of a chemical plant and a city manager rise up against their respective bosses to keep a town safe in this ecologically conscientious...

The cast and crew of Roots (1977) recall its phenomenal success on its 25th anniversary.

Stevie Wonder hosts a two-hour special with celebrity guests gathered to salute Martin Luther King Jr. on the first national holiday honoring the...

The story of American track sprinter Wilma Rudolph, who overcame physical handicaps to win three gold medals in the 1960 Olympics.

Carrie Watts begrudgingly lives with her busy, overprotective son, Ludie and pretentious daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae. No longer able to drive and...

A bored suburban housewife embarks upon a series of affairs seemingly triggered by escapism and fantasy.

Outraged by the treatment of New York City’s unhoused residents, an activist brings national attention to the issue by taking their case to...

Upon learning that their grandmother is not long for this world, Nate and Priscilla Simmons pack up their kids and leave Detroit to head down South....

After the death of his father, a former football star reunites with the family that he abandoned years earlier.