Our Call: STREAM IT! Little Richard: I Am Everything is a documentary portrait as big, grand, and rich as its subject. Lisa Cortés really forces viewers to enmesh themselves in the complex ...

As a person, Little Richard Penniman was a bit of a mystery — and remains so, even after watching this full-length TV biography. But he also was a dynamo, as a performer, on stage and on record.

Little Richard took 1950s America and the world by storm with hits like “Tutti Frutti,” “Long Tall Sally,” “Good Golly Miss Molly” and “Lucille.” The Beatles and The Rolling Stones ...

Little Richard lived a vibrant life.Little Richard lived a vibrant life. The late rock and roll legend struggled with being a queer Black man in the Jim Crow era South and failed to earn the ...

Little Richard SINGER Dec 5, 1932 - May 9, 2020 Experience the meteoric rise and enduring legacy of Little Richard. AMERICAN MASTERS FILM Little Richard: King and Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll (Jun 2023) ...

Now, viewers can watch Little Richard: I Am Everything online through iTunes or Amazon Prime Video. The film is not rated and has a run time of one hour and 38 minutes.

But the film’s more complicated project is unpacking Richard’s contradictory, tortured relationship to his own sexuality. As Little Richard: I Am Everything demonstrates, he took inspiration ...

Little Richard: I Am Everything 2023, NR, 98 min. Directed by Lisa Cortés. REVIEWED By Richard Whittaker, Fri., April 28, 2023 ...

Little Richard: I Am Everything focuses on the star's roots in — and struggle with — his connection to queer culture. TV critic Eric Deggans says it's a masterpiece.

Little Richard was making music that broke down the walls of segregation and celebrated sex, all kinds of sex. Take his early hit “Tutti Frutti,” with its memorable call of “wop-bop-a-loo ...

In the new documentary "Little Richard: I Am Everything," Emmy-winning director Lisa Cortés explores the star's life as a rock 'n' roll pioneer. It streams Friday.

Editor’s Note: The CNN Film “Little Richard: I Am Everything” tells the story of rock ‘n’ roll’s Black, queer origins. It illustrates clearly just how the revolutionary pop icon’s ...