Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

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Release date: September 11, 2024
Duration: 150 minutes
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Overview

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.

Starring

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Patrice Lumumba
Self (archive footage)
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Louis Armstrong
Self (archive footage)
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Dizzy Gillespie
Self (archive footage)
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Abbey Lincoln
Self (archive footage)