
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979)
- NR
- 04/28/1979 (US)
- Drama, TV Movie
- 1h 36m
Overview
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.
Fielder Cook
DirectorLeonora Thuna
WriterMaya Angelou
Writer, NovelCast

Paul Benjamin
Freeman
Diahann Carroll
Vivian
Ruby Dee
Grandmother Baxter
Roger E. Mosley
Bailey, Sr.
Esther Rolle
Momma
Madge Sinclair
Miss FlowersSonny Jim Gaines
Uncle Willie