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

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 ...

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 ...

En République démocratique du Congo, il est considéré par la justice comme le cerveau présumé de la tentative de coup d'Etat ...

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

Photo: Getty Sound and vision merge uniquely in this scathing film essay on US jazz and imperial skullduggery intersecting at ...

Johan Grimonprez’s documentary intertwines narratives of such American jazz legends as Louis Armstrong with the tragic, tangled story of the Congo’s early years of independence.

Attempts to change the constitution of the Democratic Republic of Congo only exacerbate existing citizen distrust in ...

The documentary “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” focuses on a hot spot in the ... as he examines how the promise of the Congo was cut down in the first flowering of the country’s independence ...

Opening at Film Forum on Nov. 1, director Johan Grimonprez’s documentary “Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat” is a stunning achievement.