Backdrop

Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

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.

2024 |2h 30m |  Documentary, History

Videos

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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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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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self (archive footage)

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René Magritte

Self (archive footage)

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Allen Dulles

Self (archive footage)

More Details

Status

Released

Language

Arabic, Dutch, English, French, Russian

Budget

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Revenue

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