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.
Description: 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.
Genres: Documentary, History
Budget: $0 | Revenue : $311,457
Runtime: 150 minutes
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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
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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
Played Self (archive footage)
Andrée Blouin
Played Self (archive footage)
René Magritte
Played Self (archive footage)
Allen Dulles
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In Koli Jean Bofane
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
Played Self (archive footage)
Fidel Castro
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Conor Cruise O’Brien
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