Nina Simone

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (2024)

Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest episodes of the Cold War. ...

They All Came Out to Montreux (2023)

Utilizing a wealth of archival footage featuring Prince, Aretha Franklin, Miles Davis and more, They All Came Out to Montreux is an affectionate story about how Claude Nobs turned his Swiss town into the home for one of the world's biggest jazz festivals. ...

Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan (2023)

Ed Sullivan broke barriers by booking Black artists on his Sunday night variety show. This documentary spotlights the TV pioneer's legacy of equality. ...

Piano Greats at the BBC (2022)

A collection of songs from the kings and queens of the keyboards, whose performances have captivated audiences over the decades and across a selection of the BBC's best-loved music programmes. From piano pioneers like Little Richard, Nina Simone and Ray Ch ...

Why Is We Americans? (2022)

The story focuses on Newark's Baraka family and its involvement in social activism, poetry, music, art and politics. ...

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

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 years, ...

How It Feels to Be Free (2021)

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 stereo ...

Happy in the Gap (2020)

A black essay on trains, beaches and space occupation. ...

The Giverny Document (Single Channel) (2019)

Filmed on location in Harlem and in Monet's historic gardens in Giverny, this multi-textured cinematic poem meditates on the bodily integrity and creative virtuosity of black women. ...

Do I Look Like a Lady? (Comedians and Singers) (2016)

Do I Look Like a Lady? (Comedians and Singers) presents a dynamic checkerboard of moving image footage featuring African-American actors and singers from across the 20th century: from Jackie "Moms" Mabley to Eartha Kitt, Whoopi Goldberg, Whitney Houston, a ...

The Amazing Nina Simone (2015)

The life, legacy and musical accomplishments of singer, musician, pianist, songwriter and Civil Rights activist, Nina Simone through interviews with over 50 of the subject's friends, family, band members, lovers and fellow activists. The film has been call ...

What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015)

The film chronicles Nina Simone's journey from child piano prodigy to iconic musician and passionate activist, told in her own words. ...

Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas (2013)

The documentary tracks the diva's difficult progress as she emerges from the tough, testosterone-fuelled world of the big bands of the 30s and 40s, to fill nightclubs and saloons across the US in the 50s and early 60s as a force in her own right. Looking a ...

Nina Simone - I Loves You Porgy (Live 1961-62) (2010)

Nina Simone has always been hard to classify. The "High Priestess of Soul" was trained as a classical pianist, but branched out early into pop, gospel, jazz and blues, playing and singing everyone's compositions and writing many of her own. At 28 years ol ...

Nina Simone: Live in '65 & '68 (2008)

Two incredible concerts from 1965 and 1968 showcasing the multifaceted diva in all her glory. Simone shines as a jazz vocalist extraordinaire on "Tomorrow Is My Turn," as a definitive folk interpreter on Bob Dylan's "The Ballad Of Hollis Brown" and as a pa ...

Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1 (2006)

Nina Simone: The Legend (1992)

The Legend, on Nina's life and music, was made in France by Frank Lords and it is told in large part by Nina Simone herself. It is an honest portrayal based on her autobiography "I Put A Spell On You," that shows Nina at her mightiest and at her most vulne ...

Nina Simone & Band: 14. Jazzfestival Hamburg (1989)

Nina Simone: Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 1987 (1987)

On July 10, 1987, Nina Simone performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival, one of the most prestigious annual music events in the world. ...

Nina Simone - Live at Ronnie Scott's (1985)

Ronnie Scott's opened in 1959 to provide a place where British Jazz musicians could jam. Eventually, American music musicians such as Johnny Griffin, Roland Kirk, Al Cohn, Stan Getz, Sony Stitt, Benny Golson, Donald Byrd, and Ben Webster played at the club ...

Nina Simone: Live at Montreux 1976 (1976)

Nina Simone was one of the greatest female vocalists of the 20th Century. She was equally at home singing jazz, blues, soul, gospel or pure pop. Nina made four appearances at the Montreux Festival between 1968 and 1990. ...

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970)

A presentation of key events in the life of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. Beginning with the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, MLK is followed through major steps in his struggle to promote racial equality. Including footage of King's ...

Nina Simone Black Journal Segment (1969)

This is an excerpt from an episode of "Black Journal," one of the earliest black-produced newsmagazines on television. It features the words and music of singer Nina Simone​, including a performance by Ms. Simone at Morehouse College. It is one of two ...

Black Woodstock (1969)

The Harlem Cultural Festival, also known as "Black Woodstock", was a series of music concerts held in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City during the summer of 1969 to celebrate African American music and culture and to promote the continued politics of black ...

The Panafrican Festival in Algiers (1969)

Festival panafricain d'Alger is a documentary by William Klein of the music and dance festival held 40 years ago in the streets and in venues all across Algiers. Klein follows the preparations, the rehearsals, the concerts… He blends images of interviews ...

História do Amor (2024)

After the sudden break up of a relationship, a young man tries to make a film using the images of his ex-girlfriend that he had on his camera. ...

Cruella (2021)

In 1970s London amidst the punk rock revolution, a young grifter named Estella is determined to make a name for herself with her designs. She befriends a pair of young thieves who appreciate her appetite for mischief, and together they are able to build a ...

Four Women (1975)

An imaginatively choreographed dance interpretation of the ballad by Nina Simone explores four common stereotypes of Black women. ...

LBJ (1968)

This is a montage of different images from the JFK, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy triumphs and assassinations, all three events being observed by Lyndon Johnson as the dark figure who is plotting the anti-black rights movement. ...