Soundtrack To A Coup D'Etat (France-Belguim) English narration.

Soundtrack To A Coup d'Etat  film Trailer HERE 

15+    150Min

Director: Johan Grimonprez

US jazz collides with Cold War colonial crimes in this electrifying film examining the CIA’s complicity in state-sanctioned murder – and its use of popular music to cover its tracks.  It's the documentary cousin to the Swedish biopic Hammarsskjold. Fight For Peace.

It’s 1960's and as the US civil rights movement swings into high gear, in Africa another movement is taking place: decolonisation. Among the 17 nations to achieve independence during the ‘year of Africa’ is the Congo. But only months after becoming the former Belgian colony’s first democratically elected prime minister, Patrice Lumumba is assassinated. In an effort to deflect attention from the CIA’s apparent involvement in the coup against him, the US turns to jazz – sending Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington and more to the Congo as unwitting ‘ambassadors’. It does not go…