Toni Morrison (SC)

The Films On Demand database offers several streaming video segments that either feature the interviews with the author or documentary pieces about her work.

Directed by Martin Scorcese, Public Speaking captures the author [Fran Lebowitz] in conversation at New York's Waverly Inn, in an onstage discussion with longtime friend and celebrated writer Toni Morrison, and on the streets of New York City.

Elvis Mitchell interviews African-American politicians, writers, thinkers and performers, including the Toni Morrison. Originally aired on HBO in 2008.

Mustapha Hasnaoui's documentary offers an inside look into the making of Margaret Garner, an opera based upon Toni Morrison's novel, Beloved, [and includes a libretto by the author]. Through interviews with cast members Hasnaoui presents the influence this opera has had on issues of race in the present day, as well as the way in which a disturbing part of history is transformed into art.

Originally broadcast on the television program Uncensored, this episode features an interview with the author.

Directed by Jonathan Demme, Beloved is a motion picture based on the novel, starring Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover.

Introduction to six of America's most talented and challenging writers, using interviews with the writers and excerpts from their books to locate their work in the broader context of African American history and letters.

The memoirs of Ida B. Wells read by Toni Morrison. Originally broadcast as an episode of the television program The American experience in 1989.

In this interview with Bill Moyers from the New York Public Library, Morrison discusses the characters in her work, the people in her life, the power of love, and how the invented world of fiction connects to life.