The United States vs. Billie Holiday backdrop
The United States vs. Billie Holiday poster

The United States vs. Billie Holiday

Her voice would not be silenced.

2021R2h 11mDirected by Lee Daniels

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."