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Soundtrack to a Coup d'État
Soundtrack to a Coup d'État
Watch soundtrack to a coup d'état 123movies. 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.
- Genre: Documentary, History
- Director: Johan Grimonprez
- Cast: Patrice Lumumba, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Abbey Lincoln, Max Roach, Nina Simone, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Nikita Khrushchev, Malcolm X, Miriam Makeba, Dwight D. Eisenhower
