De spanning stijgt wanneer de baanbrekende Mother of the Blues en haar band in 1927 samenkomen in een opnamestudio in Chicago. Aangepast naar het toneelstuk van August Wilson.
Ja! de film Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is nu beschikbaar om te kijken op Netflix in Nederland.
| Art | Mark Ricker | Production Design |
| Production | Dany Wolf | Producer |
| Production | Constanza Romero | Executive Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Ann Roth | Costume Designer |
| Production | Denzel Washington | Producer |
| Sound | Branford Marsalis | Original Music Composer |
| Directing | George C. Wolfe | Director |
| Production | Todd Black | Producer |
| Editing | Andrew Mondshein | Editor |
| Camera | Tobias A. Schliessler | Director of Photography |
| Production | Avy Kaufman | Casting |
| Directing | Michele Ziegler | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Xanthus Valan | Second Assistant Director |
| Crew | Chuck Jeffreys | Stunt Coordinator |
| Art | James F. Truesdale | Art Direction |
| Art | Travis Kerr | Set Designer |
| Art | Wes Hottman | Assistant Art Director |
| Art | Karen O'Hara | Set Decoration |
| Art | Paul Bucciarelli | Set Buyer |
| Art | Diana Stoughton | Set Decoration |
| Art | Darlene Salinas | Set Decorating Coordinator |
| Directing | Megan Graham | Script Supervisor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Matiki Anoff | Makeup Department Head |
| Costume & Make-Up | Sergio Lopez-Rivera | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Sian Richards | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Carl Fullerton | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Debi Young | Makeup Supervisor |
| Sound | Skip Lievsay | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Skip Lievsay | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Writing | Ruben Santiago-Hudson | Screenplay |
| Costume & Make-Up | Gary Archer | Prosthetics |
| Costume & Make-Up | Rachel Geary | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Bethany Montecalvo | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Bethany Townes | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Jai Williams | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Paul Urmson | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Writing | August Wilson | Theatre Play |
| Visual Effects | John Allegretti | Visual Effects |
