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Noir City Confidential (2004) / A Trip to the Moon (1902) / The Art of the Moving Picture / Peaks of Japanese Cinema / Cult Movies (1999) / Battleship Potemkin (1925) / A Million and One Nights: A History of the Motion Picture / The French New Wave / Shock Cinema (1998) / He Walked by Night (1948) / Writing the Photoplay / Silent Cinema & the Avant-Garde / Video Eyeball (1998) / Elephants Dream (2006) /
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Abbey Lincoln
Born
6 August 1930
Died
14 August 2010
Place
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Acting

Abbey Lincoln

Anna Marie Wooldridge, known professionally as Abbey Lincoln, was an American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress. She was a civil rights activist beginning in the 1960s. Lincoln made a career not only out of delivering deeply felt presentations of standards but writing and singing her own material.

As actor

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

2024 · Self (archive footage)

Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes

2023 · Self

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

2021 · Self (archive footage)

How It Feels to Be Free

2021 · Self (archival footage)

Great Women Singers of the 20th Century: Abbey Lincoln

2005 · Self

Mo' Better Blues

1990 · Lillian Gilliam

Short Walk to Daylight

1972 · Dorella

For Love of Ivy

1968 · Ivy Moore

Nothing But a Man

1964 · Josie

The Girl Can't Help It

1956 · Herself