Bessie Smith was an American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age. Nicknamed the "Empress of the Blues", she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s. She is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era and was a major influence on fellow blues singers, as well as jazz vocalists.
Movies5.118 1929 HD
In this all-black cast short, legendary blues singer Bessie Smith finds her gambler lover Jimmy messin' with a pretty, younger woman; he leaves and...
Genre: Music
Cast: Bessie Smith
Movies4.2 2004 HD
The story of The Blues traces the four main traditions of blues music: Form Blues, Blues, Urban Blues and Blues Electric. The blues has evolved and...
Genre: Music
Cast: Lee Conley Bradley
Movies6 1999 HD
In 1966, CBC Television invited some of North America's greatest blues performers to gather in a studio in Toronto, recording together and...
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Cast: Muddy Waters
Movies1 1989 HD
Wild Women Don't Have the Blues shows how the blues were born out of the economic and social transformation of African American life early in this...
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Cast: Bessie Smith
Movies6 1993 HD
Blues as a genre shaped the sound of jazz in the early 20th century and directly led to the creation of rock 'n' roll in the '50s. The scales,...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Keith David
Movies5.2 2001 HD
The story of how the radical Huey P. Newton developed the Black Panther Party based on his 10-point program for social reform.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Roger Guenveur Smith
Movies8 2002 HD
A star-studded tribute (from the creators of That's Entertainment) to the contributions of Afro-Americans in film over the last century. Vanessa...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Vanessa Williams
Movies1 1993 HD
Rhine Record's 2-DVD documentary accompaniment to their Blues Masters CD series. Includes the only know footage of Leadbelly and rare footage others...
Genre: Documentary
Cast: Son House
