I'll Fly Away (1991)
• October 7th, 1991
Drama
Overview
I'll Fly Away is an American drama television series set during the late 1950s and early 1960s, in an unspecified Southern U.S. state. It aired on NBC from 1991 to 1993 and starred Regina Taylor as Lilly Harper, a black housekeeper for the family of district attorney Forrest Bedford, whose name is an ironic reference to Nathan Bedford Forrest, the founder of the Ku Klux Klan. As the show progressed, Lilly became increasingly involved in the Civil Rights Movement, with events eventually drawing in Forrest as well. I'll Fly Away won two 1992 Emmy Awards, and 23 nominations in total. It won three Humanitas Prizes, two Golden Globe Awards, two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Drama Series, and a Peabody Award. However, the series was never a ratings blockbuster, and it was canceled by NBC in 1993, despite widespread protests by critics and viewer organizations. After the program's cancellation, a two-hour movie, I'll Fly Away: Then and Now, was produced, in order to resolve dangling storylines from Season 2, and provide the series with a true finale. The movie aired on October 11, 1993 on PBS. Its major storyline closely paralleled the true story of the 1955 murder of Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi. Thereafter, PBS began airing repeats of the original episodes, ceasing after one complete showing of the entire series.
TV Shows Link coming soon!!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Cheer Up, Mr. Kim!
Released on: 2012-11-05
Comedy, Family, Drama
A family drama involving a 32-year-old unmarried man who is raising four children! Kim Tae Pyung is ...
Dallas
Released on: 1978-04-02
Soap, Drama, Family
The world's first mega-soap, and one of the most popular ever produced, Dallas had it all. Beautiful...
Houston Knights
Released on: 1987-03-11
Drama, Crime
Houston Knights is an American crime drama set in Houston, Texas. The show ran on CBS from 1987 to 1...
The Darling Buds of May
Released on: 1991-04-07
Comedy, Drama
An idyllic picture of 1950's rural England as seen through the lives of the Larkins, a farm family l...
Contenders
Released on: 2025-04-30
Drama
In the late 1940s, the Shanhai Gang rises as a key force in the local Chinese community. Retired lea...
Crime & Punishment
Released on: 2002-06-16
Reality, Drama
Crime & Punishment is a 2002 reality television, nontraditional court show spin-off of the Law & Ord...
Deep Lurk
Released on: 2024-11-13
Drama, War & Politics
During the Anti-Japanese War, Yun Hongshen unknowingly chases after his father's killer, only to fal...
No Return
Released on: 2024-10-21
Drama
Tang Kwai-sim, known as Seventh Master, is a fiercely ambitious businesswoman who thrives under pres...
Upstairs, Downstairs
Released on: 1971-10-10
Drama
Upstairs: the wealthy, aristocratic Bellamys. Downstairs: their loyal and lively servants. For nearl...
Lipstick on Your Collar
Released on: 1993-02-21
Comedy, Drama, War & Politics
During the Suez Crisis of 1956, two young clerks at the stuffy Foreign Office in Whitehall display l...
Empress Myeongseong
Released on: 2001-05-09
Drama
Based on the life of Empress Myeongseong (1851 - 1895), the first official wife of King Gojong, the ...
Coming Home
Released on: 1998-04-12
Drama, War & Politics
Alone and without her parents, Judith Dunbar spends her school days in a boarding school. When her f...
Beecham House
Released on: 2019-06-23
Drama
On the cusp of the 19th century in Delhi, we follow the fortunes of the residents of the titular man...
All The Rivers Run II
Released on: 1990-03-18
Drama
At the turn of the century, new roads and railway lines threaten the very existence of the once thri...
The Musketeers
Released on: 2014-01-19
Drama, Action & Adventure
Set in 17th century Paris, musketeers Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan are members of an elite ...
Island at War
Released on: 2004-07-11
Drama, War & Politics
Island at War is a British television series that tells the story of the German Occupation of the Ch...
Lord of the Flies
Released on:
Drama
The story of a group of young schoolchildren who find themselves stranded on a tropical island with ...
Carnival Row
Released on: 2019-08-29
Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
In a mystical and dark city filled with humans, fairies and other creatures, a police detective inve...
Carnivàle
Released on: 2003-09-14
Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama
Carnivàle is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression and ...