As jazz celebrities rallied to the cause of African decolonization, secret Western interests saw an opportunity for ...

The musical cast of documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat is stellar: Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Nina Simone just some of the jazz titans whose work fills the film. And the coup? Well, that is ...

Much like France’s royal dynasty, the Bourbons, Israel’s ruling families didn't learn anything and didn’t forget anything.

Johan Grimonprez’s documentary intertwines narratives of such American jazz legends as Louis Armstrong with the tragic, ...

The documentary “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” focuses on a hot spot in the Cold War, set to music by the era’s ambassadors of cool—Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach and other ...

A fascinating new documentary by Belgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez, 'Soundtrack to a Coup D'Etat' shines a light on a ...

The film never lets up. Pieced together from carefully colour-graded archive footage and the contemporaneous testimonies of Khrushchev, Andrée Blouin, In Koli Jean Bofane and Conor Cruise O’Brien ...

In February 1961, a remarkable outburst took place at the United Nations in New York – jazz artists Abbey Lincoln, Max Roach, ...

In making “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat,” the director Johan Grimonprez used every instrument cinema affords. His documentary is rhythmic and propulsive, with reverberating sound and images ...