Soundtrack to a Coup d'État
9/11/2024
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In 1960, United Nations: the Global South ignites a political earthquake, musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach crash the Security Council, Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe denouncing America’s color bar, while the U.S. dispatches jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the Congo to deflect attention from its first African post-colonial coup.
Patrice Lumumba
Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong
Self (archive footage)
Dizzy Gillespie
Self (archive footage)
Abbey Lincoln
Self (archive footage)
Max Roach
Self (archive footage)
Nina Simone
Self (archive footage)
John Coltrane
Self (archive footage)
Duke Ellington
Self (archive footage)
Nikita Khrushchev
Self (archive footage)
Malcolm X
Self (archive footage)
Miriam Makeba
Self (archive footage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self (archive footage)
Andrée Blouin
Self (archive footage)
René Magritte
Self (archive footage)
Allen Dulles
Self (archive footage)
In Koli Jean Bofane
Self
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Self (archive footage)
Fidel Castro
Self (archive footage)
Conor Cruise O’Brien
Self (archive footage)
Chocolat
Love Me
Republic
The Lobster
What Happened to Monday
Murder on the Orient Express
The Dark Tower
Captain America: Civil War
Sully
Prisoners
Manchester by the Sea
Fargo
Captain Marvel
X-Men: Apocalypse
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Donnie Brasco
10 Things I Hate About You
The Shallows
The Substance
Mad Max: Fury Road