Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (2024)

7.8/10 150 min Documentary History Music

Overview

Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest episodes of the Cold War.

Cast

Patrice Lumumba

Self (archive footage)

Louis Armstrong

Self (archive footage)

Nikita Khrushchev

Self (archive footage)

Dizzy Gillespie

Self (archive footage)

Abbey Lincoln

Self (archive footage)

Max Roach

Self (archive footage)

Malcolm X

Self (archive footage)

Nina Simone

Self (archive footage)

John Coltrane

Self (archive footage)

Duke Ellington

Self (archive footage)

Miriam Makeba

Self (archive footage)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self (archive footage)

René Magritte

Self (archive footage)

Allen Dulles

Self (archive footage)

Gamal Abdel Nasser

Self (archive footage)

Fidel Castro

Self (archive footage)

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