Movies: Abbey Lincoln
- 2021
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)
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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...
- 1990
Mo' Better Blues (1990)
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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...
- 1956
The Girl Can't Help It (1956)
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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....
- 2021
How It Feels to Be Free (2021)
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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...
- 1964
Nothing But a Man (1964)
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A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America....
- 2024
Soundtrack to a Coup d'État (2024)
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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...
- 1968
For Love of Ivy (1968)
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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...
- 2023
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes (2023)
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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....
- 1972
Short Walk to Daylight (1972)
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Eight people have to find their way out of a New York subway after being trapped following an earthquake....