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Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

8.0 112 mins Documentary   2016
American Masters Pictures   ITVS   Artemis Rising   JustFilms / Ford Foundation   National Endowment for the Arts   Corporation for Public Broadcasting  
Director(s): Bob Hercules Rita Coburn Whack

Release Date: 14 Fri, Oct 2016

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.

Casts of Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

Maya Angelou

as Self (archive footage)

Bill Clinton

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Hillary Clinton

as Self

Common

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Guy Johnson

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Cicely Tyson

as Self

Oprah Winfrey

as Self

Alfre Woodard

as Self

John Singleton

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