
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Visit website4.2/10 • 8
1979-04-28 • 1h 36m
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.
- Directors
- Fielder Cook
- Writters
- Maya Angelou, Leonora Thuna
- Editors
- Maya Angelou, Leonora Thuna, Frank J. Urioste

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Visit website1979-04-28 • 1h 36m
4.2/10 • 8
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.
- Directors
- Fielder Cook
- Writters
- Maya Angelou, Leonora Thuna
- Editors
- Maya Angelou, Leonora Thuna, Frank J. Urioste
Top Billed Cast
View CreditsPaul 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
Constance Good
Maya
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- Released
- Original Language
- English
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- Keywords
- traumaracismbased on memoir or autobiographychildhood