Apr 28, 1979
96 min
Full-HD

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979)

Based on writer Maya Angelou's eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she and her older brother were raised by their grandmother after the divorce of their parents.

Category

Drama TV Movie

Country

United States of America

Companies

Tomorrow Entertainment

Paul Benjamin

Freeman

Diahann Carroll

Vivian

Ruby Dee

Grandmother Baxter

Roger E. Mosley

Bailey, Sr.

Esther Rolle

Momma

Madge Sinclair

Miss Flowers

Sonny Jim Gaines

Uncle Willie

Art Evans

Principal

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