Cicely Tyson Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

The Irish-willed eighty-year-old Bonnie Ash Fitzpatrick and her only friend in life, seventy-year-old Celine Snow disagree on just about everything....

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

The story of racism, segregation and Civil Rights in America told through the lives of the Negro League baseball players. Features exclusive...

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

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,...

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

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

Jordan Roosevelt, at 65, found herself alone, destitute, and depressed. Up against the wall, she took heart from the suggestion of a friend, a blind...

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

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...

Tells the story of an African American youth named Jimmy who encounters racial discrimination in his search for employment. Although the boy's father...

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.

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

In April 1992, following the notorious Rodney King verdict, the streets of Los Angeles became a battlefield, the backdrop to four personal...