Soundtrack to a Coup d'État
(2024)

Released: 2024-09-11

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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.

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Patrice Lumumba

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Louis Armstrong

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Dizzy Gillespie

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Abbey Lincoln

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Max Roach

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Nina Simone

as Self (archive footage)

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John Coltrane

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Duke Ellington

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Nikita Khrushchev

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Malcolm X

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Miriam Makeba

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

as Self (archive footage)

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Andrée Blouin

as Self (archive footage)

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René Magritte

as Self (archive footage)

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Allen Dulles

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Gamal Abdel Nasser

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Fidel Castro

as Self (archive footage)

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Conor Cruise O’Brien

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