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Find out how to watch I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Stream I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, watch trailers, see the cast, and more at TV Guide.
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is an American television film based on the autobiography of the same name by Maya Angelou, first aired April 28, 1979, on CBS. Angelou and Leonora Thuna wrote the screenplay, and the movie was directed by Fielder Cook .
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Watchlist. NEW. This film adaptation of Maya Angelou's autobiography focuses on the author's extremely difficult youth. Young Maya (Constance Good) lives at her grandmother's in Arkansas.
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- Diahann Carroll
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings follows Marguerite's (called "My" or "Maya" by her brother) life from the age of three to seventeen and the struggles she faces—particularly with racism and self-affirmation—in the Southern United States.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Directed by Fielder Cook. With Paul Benjamin, Diahann Carroll, Ruby Dee, Roger E. Mosley. Based on writer Maya Angelou's childhood, this story is about a young girl in the South who is sent to live with her grandmother after her parents divorce.
1h 35m. Drama. Directed By: Fielder Cook. Do you think we mischaracterized a critic's review? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified...
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Set in the 1930s, I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS begins as two black children are sent to live with their stoic but caring grandmother in Arkansas. Maya and her brother witness firsthand the horrors of racism.