The United States vs. Billie Holiday
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."
- genus: Music, Drama, History
- Studio: Lee Daniels Entertainment, Roth-Kirschenbaum Films
- keyword: war on drugs, new orleans, louisiana, jazz singer or musician, ban from profession, biography, surveillance, heroin addiction, 1940s, 1950s, fbi agent
- cast: Andra Day, Trevante Rhodes, Garrett Hedlund, Leslie Jordan, Miss Lawrence, Adriane Lenox
