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The untold story of America's coolest weapon in the Cold War
The Cold War and Civil Rights collide in this remarkable story of music, diplomacy and race. Beginning in 1955, when America asked its greatest jazz artists to travel the world as cultural ambassadors, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington and their mixed-race band members, faced a painful dilemma: how could they represent a country that still practiced Jim Crow segregation?Read moreLess
The Cold War and Civil Rights collide in this remarkable story of music, diplomacy and race. Beginning in 1955, when America asked its greatest jazz artists to travel the world as cultural ambassadors, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington and their mixed-race band members, faced a painful dilemma: how could they represent a country that still practiced Jim Crow segregation?
The story
The Cold War and Civil Rights collide in this remarkable story of music, diplomacy and race. Beginning in 1955, when America asked its greatest jazz artists to travel the world as cultural ambassadors, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington and their mixed-race band members, faced a painful dilemma: how could they represent a country that still practiced Jim Crow segregation?
Watch trailerCast & crew
Leslie Odom Jr.Narrator
Quincy JonesSelf
Dizzy GillespieSelf (archive footage)
Louis ArmstrongSelf (archive footage)
Duke EllingtonSelf (archive footage)Explore the crew
- Director
- Hugo Berkeley
- Editor
- Nse Asuquo
- Producer
- Mick Csáky
- Director of Photography
- Andre Lascaris
- Director of Photography
- Dewald Aukema