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What Happened, Miss Simone?

2015 film directed by Liz Garbus
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Summary

What Happened, Miss Simone? is a film[1]. What Happened, Miss Simone? ranks in the top 4% of film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (531 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Director: Liz Garbus[3]
  • Genre: documentary film[4], biographical film[5]
  • Producer: Liz Garbus[6], Lisa Simone[7], Justin Wilkes[8]
  • Director of photography: Igor Martinović[9]
  • Original language of film or TV show: English[10]
  • Distribution format: digital download[11], video on demand[12]
  • Review score: 88%[13], 7.9/10[14], 75/100[15]
  • Color: color[16]
  • Country of origin: United States[17]
  • Publication date: 2015[18], June 24, 2015[19]
  • Distributed by: Netflix[20], iTunes[21]
  • Main subject: Nina Simone[22], Maya Angelou[23]
  • Nominated for: Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film[24]
  • Title: What Happened, Miss Simone?[25]
  • Duration: 101 minutes[26]
  • Kijkwijzer rating: 12[27]
  • Assessment: Zimmerman Test[28]
  • P14449: 127164[29]

Why It Matters

What Happened, Miss Simone? has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] What Happened, Miss Simone? is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Related Entities

film Maya Angelou Netflix Nina Simone United States

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . imdb.com. Retrieved . imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . nytimes.com. Retrieved . nytimes.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . imdb.com. Retrieved . imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . kijkwijzer.nl. Retrieved . kijkwijzer.nl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . What Happened, Miss Simone?. wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Quesotiotyo · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['cy', 'de', 'en', 'fa', 'fr', 'id', 'it', 'ko', 'pt', 'sv']
    Filmová databáze film id → 135254
    Ampas collections film id → W1155279
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  2. 10w ago · ならちゃん · 2026-08-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Eiga.com movie id → 83547
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  3. 16w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Main subject → Nina Simone, Maya Angelou
    Aliases → —
    P14449 → 127164
    Producer → Liz Garbus, Lisa Simone, Justin Wilkes
    + 18 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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