Story Line
Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest episodes of the Cold War.
Top Cast

Patrice Lumumba
Self (archive footage)

Louis Armstrong
Self (archive footage)

Nikita Khrushchev
Self (archive footage)

Dizzy Gillespie
Self (archive footage)
Andrée Blouin
Self (archive footage)

Abbey Lincoln
Self (archive footage)
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Rating
7.8/ 10
Release Date
2024-09-11
Runtime
2h 30m
Genres
DocumentaryHistoryMusic
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CinemaSerf
7/10
•11/23/2024This documentary is a serious testament to the archivist's art as it pieces together an impressive array of imagery of the great and the good of American Jazz and combines that with some intimate actuality of the turbulence ongoing in the Congo as it...
Brent Marchant
5/10
•1/9/2025Perhaps the most important objective of a documentary is to shed light on a subject and make it comprehensible and insightful for viewers, especially when it involves little-known material. However, when it comes to writer-director Johan Grimonprez’s...





