"Where the music began"
A mythical account of the life of Buddy Bolden, the first Cornet King of New Orleans.
Social & External
The people behind it
Gary Carr
Buddy Bolden
Michael Rooker
Pat McMurphy
Ian McShane
Judge Perry
Yaya DaCosta
Nora Bolden
Ser'Darius Blain
Willie Cornish
Reno Wilson
Louis Armstrong
Kelvin Harrison Jr.
Frankie Dusen
Erik LaRay Harvey
Bartley
Robert Ri'chard
George Baquet
Karimah Westbrook
Alice Bolden
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40-year-old Arab migrant Mishal has just arrived in Spain seeking work. The murder of two farm workers at the hands of one of their undocumented employees, followed days later by the death of a local young woman, triggers an unprecedented wave of violence in the streets of El Ejido.
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A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.
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Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940s, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to stop her from singing her controversial ballad, "Strange Fruit."
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
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A drama centered on a go-go dancer with multiple personality disorder who struggles to remain her true self and begins working with a psychotherapist to uncover the mystery of the inner ghosts that haunt her.
Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.
The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered coupling gospel and country together.
A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.
An attention-seeking psychic is kidnapped and tries to use the situation to boost his popularity.
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
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