Cicely Tyson Movies

A troubled boy becomes addicted to heroin, and his mother and foster father help him fight it.

A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs and videos, which paint hidden moments of her...

In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just...

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

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

An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his...

An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.

American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.

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

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

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

Set in the year 1977, two women look to integrate their small town, inspired by the miniseries "Roots" as it hits the airwaves.

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,...

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

In this sentimental holiday tale, a young boy is taken away from his loving, adoptive household when his new mom is killed in an auto accident and...

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

A medical student marries a millionaire's daughter but insists they live on the money he earns.

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

Lucy married at the turn of the last century, when she was fifteen and her husband was fifty. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War...