The United States vs. Billie Holiday
2021·Movie
·2h 11min·
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Her voice would not be silenced.
Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940s, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to stop her from singing her controversial ballad, "Strange Fruit."
Biographical DramaCivil RightsJazz EraMusic-DrivenHistoricalRacial InjusticeTragicThought-ProvokingPolitical Intrigue
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Directed by:
Lee Daniels, Shanna Roberts Salée, H.H. Cooper
Written by:
Johann Hari, Suzan-Lori Parks
Produced by:
Georgia Simon, Andrea Kenyon, Mark Bomback
Composed by:
Ian Cymore, Sylvia Menno, Bobby Johanson
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