Cinema· Torino
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
*Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat* is a 2024 documentary by Johan Grimonprez that examines the 1960–61 Congo Crisis, including the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, and reveals how the U.S. government deployed jazz greats like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington as "jazz ambassadors" whose tours distracted world attention from Cold War machinations in the newly independent Congo.