

Zora Neale Hurston, path-breaking novelist, pioneering anthropologist and one of the first black women to enter the American literary canon (Their Eyes Were Watching God), established the African American vernacular as one of the most vital, inventive voices in American literature. This definitive film biography, eighteen years in the making, portrays Zora in all her complexity: gifted, flamboyant, and controversial but always fiercely original.

Self (archive footage)

Zora Neale Hurston

Narrator (voice)

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Zora Neale Hurston, path-breaking novelist, pioneering anthropologist and one of the first black women to enter the American literary canon (Their Eyes Were Watching God), established the African American vernacular as one of the most vital, inventive voices in American literature. This definitive film biography, eighteen years in the making, portrays Zora in all her complexity: gifted, flamboyant, and controversial but always fiercely original.

Movie / 2016

Movie / 1998

Movie / 1959

Movie / 1989

Movie / 2016

Movie / 2010

Movie / 1955

Movie / 1957

Movie / 2014

Movie / 2002

Movie / 1947

Movie / 1994

Movie / 1990

Movie / 2023

Movie / 2006

Movie / 1993

Movie / 2014

Movie / 2007

Movie / 2016

Movie / 1927