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.
Released: 2024
Casts: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Miriam Makeba, Fidel Castro, Nina Simone, Malcolm X, Nikita Khrushchev, Duke Ellington, Patrice Lumumba, Dizzy Gillespie, Abbey Lincoln, Max Roach, Andrée Blouin, René Magritte, Allen Dulles, In Koli Jean Bofane, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Conor Cruise O’Brien