Film

Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory

1997 · 1h 30m · Documentary

IMDb

7.8

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.

Mahalia Jackson

Jesse Jackson

Horace Clarence Boyer

John Sellers

George Avakian

Studs Terkel

Louis Armstrong

Ed Sullivan

Ralph Abernathy

• Jeff ScheftelDirector

Release date

January 1, 1997

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 30m

Genres

Documentary