Cicely Tyson Movies

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

Singer is a deaf-mute whose small world brings him in contact with a young girl, Mick, who cherishes a seemingly hopeless dream of becoming a concert...

Everybody Rides The Carousel invites the viewer along on eight "rides" through the different stages of life. Based on the work by Erik Erikson, one...

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

The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City...

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

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

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,...

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...

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

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...

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 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...

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

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

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

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

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