The United States vs. Billie Holiday

N/A

2021

MusicDramaHistory

2 hours 11 minutes

Summary

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."

~ Her voice would not be silenced.
Lee Daniels

Director