The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Covering the good times and bad from his 20s to 40s. Much of that time was spent on chain gangs in the south. Even in prison he became well known for the songs he had composed and sung during and before the time he spent there.

Richard Jewell
2019
7.4/10

Respect
2021
6.8/10

Elvis
1979
6.9/10

Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
2022
7.0/10

My Dinner with Hervé
2018
6.3/10

Gigi & Nate
2022
7.6/10

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
2025
6.6/10

Back to Black
2024
6.7/10

Elvis
2022
7.4/10

I Saw the Light
2016
6.2/10

Eleanor the Great
2025
6.8/10

Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
2004
5.9/10

Birth of the Dragon
2017
5.8/10

The Sound of Silence
2019
5.9/10

La Bamba
1987
7.3/10

42
2013
7.2/10

Priscilla
2023
6.7/10

Ride Like a Girl
2019
7.3/10

Big George Foreman
2023
7.6/10

Resurrecting the Champ
2007
6.3/10
James Dean
2001
6.8/10