🎬 Documentary

How It Feels to Be Free

"How Six African-American Female Performers Challenged the Entertainment Industry"

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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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Year
2021
Runtime
2h
Genre
Documentary
Director
Language
EN

Cast

🎭 Documentary 🎬 Yoruba Richen 👤 Abbey Lincoln 👤 Nina Simone 👤 Diahann Carroll

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How It Feels to Be Free has a runtime of 2h (2 hours).
How It Feels to Be Free was directed by Yoruba Richen and released in 2021.
How It Feels to Be Free is a Documentary film (2021).
The cast of How It Feels to Be Free includes Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone, Diahann Carroll, Pam Grier, Lena Horne.

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