Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest episodes of the Cold War.
Patrice Lumumba
Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong
Nikita Khrushchev
Dizzy Gillespie
Andrée Blouin
Abbey Lincoln
Max Roach
Malcolm X
Nina Simone
John Coltrane
Duke Ellington
Miriam Makeba
Conor Cruise O’Brien
Dwight D. Eisenhower
René Magritte