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Nina Simone

Actor · 30 credits · 4 in highly-rated films

Best known for What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015)

Frequent collaborators: Mahalia Jackson, Abbey Lincoln

Movies (30 total, ranked by score)

  1. What Happened, Miss Simone?

    2015 · ★ 7.4 (382 votes)

    Music, Documentary

    1

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

    2021 · ★ 7.6 (226 votes)

    Music, Documentary, History

    2

  3. Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

    2024 · ★ 7.7 (74 votes)

    Documentary, History, Music

    3

  4. King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

    1970 · ★ 7.1 (11 votes)

    Documentary

    4

  5. Piano Greats at the BBC

    2022 · ★ 6.5 (2 votes)

    Music

    5

  6. Black Woodstock

    1969 · ★ 8.0 (4 votes)

    Music, Documentary

    6

  7. Why Is We Americans?

    2022

    Documentary

    7

  8. Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas

    2013

    Documentary, Music

    8

  9. The Pan-African Festival in Algiers

    1969 · ★ 6.0 (2 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    9

  10. Nina Simone: The Legend

    1992 · ★ 7.3 (4 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    10

  11. Nina Simone: Live at Montreux 1976

    1976 · ★ 9.3 (6 votes)

    Music

    11

  12. Nina Simone: Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 1987

    1987 · ★ 10.0 (1 votes)

    Music

    12

  13. How It Feels to Be Free

    2021

    Documentary

    13

  14. The Amazing Nina Simone

    2015 · ★ 7.5 (8 votes)

    Documentary, Music, History

    14

  15. Happy in the Gap

    2020 · ★ 10.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    15

  16. They All Came Out to Montreux

    2023 · ★ 8.5 (2 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    16

  17. Nina Simone - I Loves You Porgy (Live 1961-62)

    2010 · ★ 10.0 (1 votes)

    Music

    17

  18. Nina Simone - Live at Ronnie Scott's

    1985 · ★ 8.7 (3 votes)

    Music

    18

  19. Nina Simone: Live in '65 & '68

    2008 · ★ 10.0 (1 votes)

    Music

    19

  20. The Giverny Document (Single Channel)

    2019

    Documentary

    20

  21. Do I Look Like a Lady? (Comedians and Singers)

    2016

    Documentary

    21

  22. Nina Simone, la rebelle

    2024

    Documentary

    22

  23. Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1

    2006

    Music

    23

  24. I Dreamed of Seeing Myself

    2024

    Animation, Fantasy, Documentary

    24

  25. Nina Simone & Band: 14. Jazzfestival Hamburg

    1989

    Music

    25

  26. Nina: A Historical Perspective

    1970

    Documentary, Music

    26

  27. Nina Simone Resonances at the Paris Pantheon

    2024

    Music

    27

  28. Nina Simone - Live in Pompeii

    1983

    Music

    28

  29. Nina Simone: Live in Antibes - July 24th, 1965

    1965

    Music

    29

  30. Nina Simone Black Journal Segment

    1969

    30

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 30, 2026.