How It Feels to Be Free (2021)

January. 18,2021

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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 stereotypes, and transformed themselves and their audiences in the process.

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Abbey Lincoln as Self (archival footage)

[2021] Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) [2021] How It Feels to Be Free [1968] For Love of Ivy

Nina Simone as Self (archival footage)

[2022] Why Is We Americans? [2021] How It Feels to Be Free [2021] Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) [2015] What Happened, Miss Simone? [2015] The Amazing Nina Simone [2008] Nina Simone: Live in '65 & '68

Diahann Carroll as Self (archival footage)

[2021] How It Feels to Be Free [2018] The Little Mermaid [2016] The Masked Saint [2013] Peeples [2012] Sing Your Song [2010] At Risk

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IslandGuru

2021/01/18

Who payed the critics

ScoobyMint

2021/01/19

Disappointment for a huge fan!

filippaberry84

2021/01/20

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Haven Kaycee

2021/01/21

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

How It Feels to Be Free (2021)

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