Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

2024 · M · History

What do you get when you mix colonial politics, the CIA and a slew of incredible jazz icons? A wildly inventive and superbly edited documentary that makes wonderful use of a treasure trove of archives to tell a very knotty, and sometimes incredulous, history of power, music and politics.

Directed by: Johan Grimonprez

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