Ray

Ray (2004) is a music drama biopic you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Taylor Hackford. Jamie Foxx plays Ray Charles across three decades — from a sharecropper's son going blind in rural Florida to the artist who rewired American music by fusing gospel, country and rhythm and blues into something no one had quite done before. The performance won Foxx the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Charles lost his sight by age seven. His mother pushed him toward independence rather than pity, and he found his direction at a piano. The film traces his climb through the Southern club circuit, his explosive commercial breakthrough, and the harder parts — a heroin habit that shadowed years of his career, and a personal life complicated enough to fill several films on its own. Kerry Washington and Regina King play the women who saw through the performance he gave the rest of the world.

Ray earned six Oscar nominations total, winning two. Hackford keeps the biography grounded in specific scenes and textures rather than highlight-reel moments — which is what separates it from the average music legend story. Stream Ray (2004) online on iFILM.