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   Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

   Film · 2020 · also drama and music

   Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.

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   Hounddog

   Film · 2008 · also drama and music

   A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.

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   Cadillac Records

   Film · 2008 · also drama and music

   The story of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, and the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Le...

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4. 4

   Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody

   Film · 2022 · also drama and music

   The joyous, emotional, heartbreaking celebration of the life and music of Whitney Houston, the greatest female R&B pop vocalist of all time. Tracking her journey from obs...

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   Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B

   Film · 2014 · also drama and music

   The story of R&B singer and actress Aaliyah; namely, the highs and lows of her career, her romantic pursuits, and the events leading up to her death in 2001 at the age of...

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   Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

   Film · 1999 · also drama and tv movie

   An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Yet against the odds s...

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   Crossroads

   Film · 1986 · also drama and music

   A wanna-be blues guitar virtuoso seeks a long-lost song by legendary musician, Robert Johnson.

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8. 8

   Iron Jawed Angels

   Film · 2004 · also drama and tv movie

   Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.

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   Preacher's Kid

   Film · 2010 · also drama and music

   Longing to experience more of life, twentysomething preacher's daughter Angie strikes out on her own for the very first time and joins a traveling gospel show.

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    Born to Be Blue

    Film · 2015 · also drama and music

    Jazz legend Chet Baker finds love and redemption when he stars in a movie about his own troubled life to mount a comeback.

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