What Happened, Miss Simone? 2015 Movie

A documentary about the life and legend Nina Simone, an American singer, pianist, and civil rights activist labeled the "High Priestess of Soul." More details

Directors

Liz Garbus

Cast

Nina Simone Lisa Simone Kelly Roger Nupie Al Schackman

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documentary biography music year 1968 year 1960 year 1957 year 1959 year 1961 year 1963 year 1965 year 1976 year 1967 year 1987 year 1993 year 2000 year 2003 black american african american husband wife relationship singing song archival footage interview family relationships pianist piano songwriter segregation american south new york city classical pianist curtis institute of musuc prejudice nightclub jazz music blues music europe france black history begins with quotation reference to maya angelou applause concert footage microphone epilogue scene during opening credits freedom fear mother daughter relationship revolutionary anger rage photograph tape recording reference to tryon north carolina church revival meeting female preacher girl 7 year old piano recital piano lesson reference to johann sebastian bach reference to ludwig van beethoven reference to claude debussy reference to johannes brahms loneliness isolation philadelphia pennsylvania reference to carl czerny reference to franz liszt reference to sergei rachmaninoff money reference to atlantic city new jersey bar reference to simone signoret guitarist reference to new hope pennsylvania newport jazz festival musician tambourine record album reference to playboy magazine policeman reference to mount vernon new york talent manager father daughter relationship reference to god reference to atlantic records businessman carnegie hall manhattan new york city reference to gerry mulligan split screen reference to bill cosby b word f word depression pills home movie wife beater marital rape beating brutality bully backhand face slap violence reference to birmingham alabama domestic violence reference to mississippi civil rights movement reference to montgomery alabama reference to selma alabama reference to ralph bunche reference to langston hughes reference to sidney poitier reference to leonard bernstein lynching racial discrimination newsreel footage documentary footage reference to lorraine hansberry reference to the university of massachusetts amherst reference to karl marx reference to vladimir lenin reference to a raisin in the sun the play reference to young gifted and black the play philosophy reference to betty shabazz activist politics pride black culture black power rebel rebellion reference to the vietnam war reference to lyndon johnson terrorist militant revolution reference to aretha franklin reference to gladys knight diary hate reference to columbia presbyterian hospital manhattan suicidal thoughts nervous breakdown sex open marriage insanity reference to memphis tennessee westbury music fair riot breakup wedding ring divorce liberia bikini usa lightning mother beats daughter 14 year old reference to new york city nomad 4 year old switzerland montreux jazz festival reference to janis ian paris france desperation unhappiness controversy boycott reference to nijmegen the netherlands doctor trilafon medication nervous tic reference to holland audience suffering reference to a bosendorfer piano reference to chanel perfume advertisement genius grammy award grammy hall of fame 19 year old scene during closing credits repeated scene juilliard school martin luther king jr. assassination title directed by female nina simone reference to nina simone 1960s 1950s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 20th century 21st century civil rights singer racism child prodigy spousal abuse manic depression reference to miles davis

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