What Happened, Miss Simone? 2015 Watch Free in HD

James Baldwin

2 August 1924, Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Stokely Carmichael

29 January 1941, Port of Spain, Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]

Walter Cronkite

4 November 1916, St. Joseph, Missouri, USA

Stanley Crouch

14 December 1945, Los Angeles, California, USA

Gerrit De Bruin

Dick Gregory

12 October 1932, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Hugh M. Hefner

9 April 1926, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Elisabeth Henry-Macari

Lisa Simone Kelly

12 September 1962, Mount Vernon, New York, USA

Martin Luther King

15 January 1929, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Al Schackman

Attallah Shabazz

16 November 1958, New York City, New York, USA

Ilyasah Shabazz

22 July 1962, USA

Nina Simone

21 February 1933, Tryon, North Carolina, USA

Andrew Stroud

4 December 1925, Halifax County, Virginia, USA

Malcolm X

19 May 1925, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

George Wein

October 3, 1925 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Harry Belafonte

1 March 1927, New York City, New York, USA

Sammy Davis Jr.

8 December 1925, Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Merv Griffin

6 July 1925, San Mateo, California, USA

Langston Hughes

1 February 1902, Joplin, Missouri, USA

Andrew Young

12 March 1932, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Liz Garbus

San Francisco Chronicle

It may not answer What Happened, Miss Simone?, but it does tell us why the question must be asked and will be asked, for a very long time.

June 24, 2015

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Antagony & Ecstasy

A biographical sketch so scintillating and authoritative that one barely registers how stylistically generic it is.

July 10, 2016

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Los Angeles Times

As music and cultural critic Stanley Crouch says, "You only have to hear her once. No one sounds like her except her."

June 25, 2015

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Flick Filosopher

Powerful, intimate, and fresh. We desperately need to hear more women talking about being driven in an inexorable way toward a passion.

February 16, 2016

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Shadow and Act

It's an astounding work that is both jarring and unapologetic in its examination of a musical genius.

April 12, 2017

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Spirituality and Practice

A feisty and frequently moving documentary on the life and musical career of singer/songwriter Nina Simone.

February 19, 2016

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RogerEbert.com

"What Happened" features some of the best concert footage and musical performances in recent music doc memory, even if it never quite answers the question in its title.

June 24, 2015

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New York Times

An often electric, bracingly urgent documentary ...

June 23, 2015

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The Film Stage

A rich and complex tapestry chronicling Simone from her early years struggling to break in.

February 22, 2016

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Christian Science Monitor

I think the film overreaches in casting Simone as a standard-bearer against racism and sexism, but it's filled with mesmerizing clips from throughout her performing career as well as numerous interviews with Simone, both audio and on film.

June 26, 2015

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