T he documentary “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” focuses on a hot spot in the Cold War, set to music by the era’s ambassadors of cool—Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach and other ...

The documentary “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” focuses on a hot spot in the Cold War, set to music by the era’s ambassadors of cool—Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach and other ...

Directed by Belgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez, Soundtrack to a Coup d'État transforms political history into a kinetic, urgent concert hall of ideas. For Grimonprez, the fusion of music and ...

Our Call: Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat asks a lot of us, but it’s absolutely rewarding, a history lesson told like no other. STREAM IT. John Serba is a freelance writer and film critic based in ...

History is a playlist crackling with fire and intrigue in “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.” The film’s heady 2½ hours are as thick with detail as a graduate seminar yet bustle like a TikTok ...

But that doesn’t mean it’s dry or academic. “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” is a furious and elliptical film, a piece of true history structured like a spider web and drenched in real urgency.

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat is directed by Belgian doc filmmaker Johan Grimonprez, of the doc films Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, Double Take, Shadow World, and Blue Orchids previously, plus many other ...

The IndieWire review for the documentary highlighted that “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” isn’t a “history lesson in the traditional sense,” given its use of songs in lieu of narration.

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat relates not just Lumumba’s assassination but the larger role the Congo, a nation rich with natural resources, played in the Cold War – or more to the point, how ...

A coup d’etat is a French term that means the overthrow of a government, ... Four history and political science experts who have studied coups and political instability told PolitiFact that it ...