The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)
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The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)

Genre
Drama,Biography,Music
Release Date
February 26, 2021
Studio
Hulu
Official Site
https://press.hulu.com/shows/the-united-states-vs-billie-holiday/
Genre
Drama,Biography,Music
Release Date
February 26, 2021
MPAA Rating
-
Duration
-
Production Budget
-
Studio
Hulu
Official Site
https://press.hulu.com/shows/the-united-states-vs-billie-holiday/
Director
Lee Daniels
Producer
Lee Daniels
Screenwriter
Suzan-Lori Parks
Starring

The legendary Billie Holiday, one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time, spent much of her career being adored by fans across the globe. Beginning in the 1940's in New York City, the federal government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to escalate and racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to stop her from singing her controversial and heart-wrenching ballad, "Strange Fruit".

Led by Oscar nominated director Lee Daniels and introducing Grammy nominated singer-songwriter Andra Day, "The United States vs. Billie Holiday" unapologetically presents the icon’s complicated, irrepressible life. Screenplay Writer Suzan-Lori Parks, the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, pens this intimate tale of a fierce trailblazer whose defiance through music helped usher in the civil rights movement.