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  1. English. Billie is a 2019 documentary film about Billie Holiday, written and directed by British filmmaker James Erskine. [2] [3] [4] [5] The film is based around interviews recorded on audio cassettes through the 1970s by Linda Lipnack Kuehl, researching a book on Holiday that was never completed because of Kuehl's death in 1978 ...

  2. Sep 8, 2020 · She started a notable rebellion singing “Strange Fruit” which exposed the realities of Black life in America and earned her powerful enemies. Raw, emotional and brutally honest, Billie is ...

    • 2 min
    • 288.5K
    • Greenwich Entertainment
  3. www.imdb.com › title › tt8019486Billie (2019) - IMDb

    Dec 4, 2020 · 1 Video. 7 Photos. Documentary Biography History. Documentary on the famed jazz singer Billie Holiday. Director. James Erskine. Writer. James Erskine. Stars. Linda Lipnack Kuehl. Billie Holiday. Sylvia Syms. See production info at IMDbPro. RENT/BUY. from $3.99. Add to Watchlist. Added by 3.3K users. 14 User reviews. 27 Critic reviews. 71 Metascore.

    • (997)
    • Documentary, Biography, History
    • James Erskine
    • 2020-12-04
  4. Billie Holiday one of the most fascinating and tragic icons of American music, let alone jazz. As the film portrays, she is a singer who was trapped in a cycle of exploitation and abuse that fueled her ability as a performer, leading to a tragically early death.

    • (1.2K)
    • Altitude Film Entertainment
    • James Erskine
  5. Sep 5, 2019 · By Chris Willman. Getty. “I want to know why all the girl singers crack up. They crack up!” That’s Tony Bennett, in voiceover, musing aloud about the fate of the subject of “Billie,” an absorbing...

  6. www.metacritic.com › movie › billieBillie - Metacritic

    Dec 4, 2020 · Billie is the far and away the most definitive Billie Holiday biography ever put on screen, a film that celebrates her magic and examines the demons that haunted her, chemical and human.

  7. Billie is a 2019 documentary film about Billie Holiday, written and directed by British filmmaker James Erskine.