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Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

2016 · 112 min

A warm, dignified archival portrait that lets a magnetic storyteller's wit and hard-won wisdom carry you through decades of American history.

Directed by: Rita Coburn Whack, Bob Hercules
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Maya Angelou, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton

Overview: A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs and videos, which paint hidden moments of her exuberant life during some of America’s most defining civil rights moments. From her upbringing in the Depression-era South to her swinging soirees with Malcolm X in Ghana to her inaugural speech for President Bill Clinton, we are given special access to interviews with Dr. Angelou whose indelible charm and quick wit make it easy to love her.

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Directed by: Rita Coburn Whack, Bob Hercules
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Maya Angelou, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton

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Tone: warmstrength 3 of 3
upliftingstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: race
identity
art
trauma
healing
Places: None
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
true story
nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Humour	5
Realism	10
Romance	3
Tension	3
Darkness	4
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: documentary
Directed by: Rita Coburn Whack, Bob Hercules
Starring: Maya Angelou, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Common, Louis Gossett Jr., Guy Johnson, Cicely Tyson, Oprah Winfrey
Runtime: 112 min
Country: United States of America
Languages: English

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