Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory

(1997)

★ 10 IMDb · 2 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1997

Runtime: 90 мин

Director: Jeff Scheftel

Cast: Mahalia Jackson, Джесси Джексон, Horace Clarence Boyer, John Sellers, George Avakian, Studs Terkel, Луи Армстронг, Эд Салливан, Ralph Abernathy

Plot

Documentary narrated by Paul Winfield, this documentary follows the course of Mahalia Jackson's extraordinary life - from her humble beginnings as a sickly child singing in New Orleans churches to her breakthrough with Columbia Records and her ascendancy to Carnegie Hall and Europe's great stages. Her story's told through archival footage and interviews with those who knew her best.