Soundtrack to a Coup d'État
Synopsis
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.
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Nikita Khrushchev
Self (archive footage)
Nina Simone
Self (archive footage)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong
Self (archive footage)
Malcolm X
Self (archive footage)
Abbey Lincoln
Self (archive footage)
Duke Ellington
Self (archive footage)
Dizzy Gillespie
Self (archive footage)
Allen Dulles
Self (archive footage)
John Coltrane
Self (archive footage)
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