Soundtrack to a Coup d'État poster

Soundtrack to a Coup d'État( 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.

    Top Billed Cast

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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)

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      Max Roach

      Self (archive footage)

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      Nina Simone

      Self (archive footage)

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      John Coltrane

      Self (archive footage)

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      Duke Ellington

      Self (archive footage)

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      Nikita Khrushchev

      Self (archive footage)

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      Malcolm X

      Self (archive footage)

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      Miriam Makeba

      Self (archive footage)

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      Dwight D. Eisenhower

      Self (archive footage)

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      Andrée Blouin

      Self (archive footage)

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      René Magritte

      Self (archive footage)

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      Allen Dulles

      Self (archive footage)

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      In Koli Jean Bofane

      Self

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      Gamal Abdel Nasser

      Self (archive footage)

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      Fidel Castro

      Self (archive footage)

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      Conor Cruise O’Brien

      Self (archive footage)

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    A review by CinemaSerf

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Sat Nov 23 2024
    This documentary is a serious testament to the archivist's art as it pieces together an impressive array of imagery of the great and the good of American Jazz and combines that with some intimate actuality of the turbulence ongoing in the Congo as it strived for independence. Why might anyone care about the future of an impoverished African nation that had all but bankrupted it's "owner" - King Leopold II of Belgium? Well that's because it holds enormous deposits of the uranium required by both the West and the Soviets - and that's just the start of it's reputedly $23 trillion worth of mineral ...

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    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

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