I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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.

Release Date

28 April 1979

96 minutes

Director

Main Cast

Grandmother Baxter
Bailey, Sr.
Miss Flowers
Uncle Willie
Principal
Mrs. Gurney
Mr. Donleavy