The United States vs. Billie Holiday Movie Trailer
Andra Day stars as Billie Holiday in
The United States vs. Billie
Holiday, directed by Lee Daniels (
The
Butler). The movie deals with
Holiday's struggles with substance abuse,
her being targeted by the Federal Bureau
of Narcotics, and the efforts to get her
to stop singing the song "Strange Fruit,"
a civil rights song that protested the
lynching of Black Americans.
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