Movies: Abbey Lincoln

  • 2021
    Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

    Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)

    Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

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    During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture, and promoting Black pride and unity. The footage from the festival sat in a basement, unseen for over 50 y...

    Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
  • 1990
    Mo' Better Blues

    Mo' Better Blues (1990)

    Mo' Better Blues

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    Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile...

    Mo' Better Blues
  • 1956
    The Girl Can't Help It

    The Girl Can't Help It (1956)

    The Girl Can't Help It

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    A down-and-out gangster hires a down-on-his-luck agent to make his girlfriend a recording star within six weeks....

    The Girl Can't Help It
  • 1964
    Nothing But a Man

    Nothing But a Man (1964)

    Nothing But a Man

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    A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America....

    Nothing But a Man
  • 2024
    Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

    Soundtrack to a Coup d'État (2024)

    Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

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    In 1960, United Nations: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe denouncing America’s color bar, while the U.S. dispatches jazz ambassador Lou...

    Soundtrack to a Coup d'État
  • 1968
    For Love of Ivy

    For Love of Ivy (1968)

    For Love of Ivy

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    A white family has had the same Black maid for many years. When she tells them she wants to go back to school and will be leaving soon, the 20ish year old son decides what she needs is a change and begins searching for a man to wine and dine her, but...

    For Love of Ivy
  • 1972
    Short Walk to Daylight

    Short Walk to Daylight (1972)

    Short Walk to Daylight

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    Eight people have to find their way out of a New York subway after being trapped following an earthquake....

    Short Walk to Daylight
  • 2021
    How It Feels to Be Free

    How It Feels to Be Free (2021)

    How It Feels to Be Free

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    Tells the inspiring story of how six iconic African American female entertainers – Lena Horne, Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone, Diahann Carroll, Cicely Tyson and Pam Grier – challenged an entertainment industry deeply complicit in perpetuating racist ster...

    How It Feels to Be Free
  • 2023
    Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes

    Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes (2023)

    Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes

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    The Drum Waltzes explores the life and music of legendary drummer, activist Max Roach, his creative peaks, personal struggles and re-inventions from the Jim Crow to Civil Rights eras, from heady days of post-war jazz to hip hop and beyond....

    Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes