2025Orwell: 2+2=5— Self (archive footage)
2024Maya Angelou at the BBC— Self (archive footage)
2024Daedalus— Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
2022Why Is We Americans?— Self
2021A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings— Self
2020Minha Bateria Está Fraca e Está Ficando Tarde— Self
2018Becky and the Birds— Self (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
2018Words Are Things— Narrator (voice)
2018Mr. SOUL!— Self (archive footage)
2016Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise— Self (archive footage)
2015I Hope You Dance: The Power and Spirit of Song— Self
2014The Power of the Heart— Self
2012Paul Simon: Under African Skies— Self
2011On the Shoulders of Giants
2010One Night in Vegas— Self
2009Good Hair— Self
2009The Black Candle— Self - Narrator
2009Eia pour Césaire— Self
2008Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed— Self
2006Madea's Family Reunion— May
2004Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?— Self (archive footage)
2003Sisters in Cinema— Self
2000The Runaway— Conjure Woman
1999The Unfinished Journey— Self
1998The Enchanted Island Madagascar: The Living Edens— Narrator
1998Quincy Jones... The First 50 Years— Self
1997Perfect Moment— Self
1996Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas— Narrator (voice)
1996Angelou on Burns
1996Get on the Bus— Self (archive footage, uncredited)
1995How to Make an American Quilt— Anna
1994Malcolm X: Make It Plain— Self
1994Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!— Self (archive footage)
1993There Are No Children Here— Lelia Mae
1993Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration— Self - Special Guest
1992Kindred Spirits: Contemporary African American Artists— Anchor
1992The Real Malcolm X
1989James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket— Self
1987Aimé Césaire, le masque des mots— Self
1982Creativity with Bill Moyers: Portrait of Maya Angelou
1977The Richard Pryor Special?— Willie's Wife
1959Porgy and Bess— Dancer
1957Calypso Heat Wave
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