Cicely Tyson Movies

A troubled boy becomes addicted to heroin, and his mother and foster father help him fight it.

A young family moves into a historic home in Georgia, only to learn they are not the house's only inhabitants. Soon they find themselves in the presen...

Tells the story of an African American youth named Jimmy who encounters racial discrimination in his search for employment. Although the boy's father...

Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She ha...

In the 1940s a 40-year-old woman with five healthy children gives birth to a girl with Down's syndrome.

Cicely Tyson was Emmy-nominated as Outstanding Actress for her portrait of a Chicago schoolteacher whose remarkable achievements with black children l...

Jordan Roosevelt, at 65, found herself alone, destitute, and depressed. Up against the wall, she took heart from the suggestion of a friend, a blind w...

A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.

Carrie Watts begrudgingly lives with her busy, overprotective son, Ludie and pretentious daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae. No longer able to drive and forb...

Lucy married at the turn of the last century, when she was fifteen and her husband was fifty. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War for...

American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.

A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.

Free to Be…You and Me, a project of the Ms. Foundation for Women, is a record album, and illustrated book first released in November 1972, featuring s...

In this sentimental holiday tale, a young boy is taken away from his loving, adoptive household when his new mom is killed in an auto accident and his...

The story of American track sprinter Wilma Rudolph, who overcame physical handicaps to win three gold medals in the 1960 Olympics.

Set in the year 1977, two women look to integrate their small town, inspired by the miniseries "Roots" as it hits the airwaves.

The manager of a chemical plant and a city manager rise up against their respective bosses to keep a town safe in this ecologically conscientious made...

After the death of his father, a former football star reunites with the family that he abandoned years earlier.

Dr. Sam Abelman is a Jewish doctor contentedly spending his autumn years serving his own Brooklyn neighborhood. But when his nephew, would-be journali...

A medical student marries a millionaire's daughter but insists they live on the money he earns.