Soundtrack to a Coup d'État

Award-winning documentary on how jazz, decolonisation, and the Cold War led two musicians to conduct a massive act of protest.

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 colour bar, while the U.S. dispatches jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to the Congo to deflect attention from its first African post-colonial coup.

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