“WHAT happened, Miss Simone?”, Liz Garbus’s film about the life of Nina Simone, will be shown on Netflix today. It is the first documentary that the streaming service has commissioned from scratch. But with the likes of HBONow entering the market, Netflix’s attempt to maintain its competitive edge is hardly surprising.
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