Interview topics range from personal relationships and career highlights to the ramifications of racism in America and how it impacted personal lives and professions.Īpproximately 96% of interview footage never gets released in final films or other productions. Among the Black artists and influencers are Maya Angelou, Quincy Jones, Sidney Poitier, James Earl Jones, Audra McDonald, Denzel Washington, Dionne Warwick, Herbie Hancock, as well as less well known figures such as native New Yorker Norma Miller, a comedian and Lindy-Hop dancer who toured with Ella Fitzgerald. This treasure trove of video featuring the movers and shakers of American culture makes for rewarding exploration, especially as a resource during Black History Month. More than 1,000-plus hours of footage from more than 1,000 original, never-before-seen, full, raw interviews is now public and fully searchable for the first time ever. Angelou’s son, Guy Johnson.In January 2021, THIRTEEN’s award-winning PBS documentary series American Masters released 500 videos from its robust archive of interviews covering the last four decades of American Masters films. Angelou, her friends, and family, including Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Common, Alfre Woodard, Cicely Tyson, Quincy Jones, Hillary Clinton, Louis Gossett, Jr., John Singleton, Diahann Carroll, Valerie Simpson, Random House editor Bob Loomis and Dr. The film also features exclusive interviews with Dr. From her upbringing in the Depression-era South and her early performing career (1957’s Miss Calypso album and Calypso Heat Wave film, Jean Genet’s 1961 play The Blacks) to her work with Malcolm X in Ghana and her many writing successes, including her inaugural poem for President Bill Clinton, American Masters – Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise reveals hidden facets of her life during some of America’s most defining moments. Angelou’s incredible journey, shedding light on the untold aspects of her life through never-before-seen footage, rare archival photographs and videos, and her own words. With unprecedented access, filmmakers Bob Hercules and Rita Coburn Whack trace Dr.
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