American Masters — Season 1, Episode 7: Billie Holiday: The Long Night of Lady Day
Documentary • 90 min • 40 seasons, 311 episodes • ★ 7.3/10
Episode synopsis
A biography of Billie Holiday, one of America's most unique and emotional jazz singers and the tragic end of her life at an early age.
About American Masters
American Masters is a PBS television series which produces biographies on enduring writers, musicians, visual and performing artists, dramatists, filmmakers, and others who have left an indelible impression on the cultural landscape of the United States.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1Private Conversations: On the Set of 'Death of a Salesman'
- E2Philip Johnson, Self Portrait
- E3Katherine Anne Porter: The Eye of Memory
- E4The Unknown Chaplin (1)
- E5The Unknown Chaplin (2)
- E6The Unknown Chaplin (3)
- E8James Levine: A Life in Music
- E9Aaron Copland: A Self Portrait
- E10Thomas Eakins: A Motion Portrait
- E11Georgia O'Keeffe
- E12Eugene O'Neill: A Glory of Ghosts