Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

It would be an empty world without the blues.

11/25/20201h 33min6.6/10(1267 TMDB votes)

DramaMusic

Directed by George C. Wolfe

Plot

Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.

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