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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?
Leslie Odom Jr.
Narrator
Quincy Jones
Self
Dizzy Gillespie
Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong
Self (archive footage)
Duke Ellington
Self (archive footage)
Hugo Berkeley
Director
MK Ultra
Democracy Is ...
Information Violence
Voice
Churchill: Britain's Secret Apartheid
Rogues In Robes
1968: A Year of War, Turmoil and Beyond
De Gaulle, la bombe à tout prix !
Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day
The Last Spy
Hallo Satchmo
Saxophone Colossus
Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992
Talmage Farlow
NUKED
Banished
Spies of Mississippi
Quincy
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
Red Shadow over the White House
Framing Britney Spears
The Red Elvis
1989
Cannabis : Une enquête de Mathieu Kassovitz et Antoine Robin
The Crazy Che
How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin
Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise
Electronic Body Movie
Black Power: A British Story of Resistance
Lenin kam nur bis Lüdenscheid - Meine kleine deutsche Revolution
The Black List: Volume Two
1979: Big Bang of the Present
Vince Guaraldi: The Maestro of Menlo Park
Sidney Poitier - The Man Who Changed Hollywood
Cold War. Battle Over the Ocean
Serving in Secret: Love, Country, and Don't Ask, Don't Tell
The Day Called X
For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska
The Fire in Anniston: A Freedom Riders Story
Beth Hart - Bad Woman Blues
The Great Game: The Making of Spycraft
Masterspy of Moscow - George Blake
Hasselhoff vs. The Berlin Wall
Chile (1970-1973)
The 501s: An Inside Story
Anarchy, U.S.A.
Sathima's Windsong
Black Men in Uniform
Breath of Freedom
The Son
Django Reinhardt: King of Jazz Guitar
America's Untold Journey: 450 Years of the African American Experience
The Picture Taker
The Survivalists
A Community Called Orange Mound
Guten Tag, RDA !
Ferguson Rises
Obaida
Destruction of the Berlin Wall
Espions pour la planète
Crisis en el Caribe (Noticiero ICAIC)
Machos
Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story
Noble Sissle's Syncopated Ragtime
Jimmy McGary: The Best Jazz You Never Heard
My Mom Jayne
John Candy: I Like Me
Searching for Sugar Man
Jim Henson Idea Man
The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
13th
I Am Not Your Negro
The Fog of War
The Up in Smoke Tour
Night Will Fall
When We Were Kings
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Amy
I Am Heath Ledger
For the Love of Spock
Whitney
Chasing Trane
Quincy
Muscle Shoals
Let's Get Lost
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
The Bloody Hundredth
Sidney
Coded Bias
Who Are You, Charlie Brown?
Gilbert
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
Chris Brown: Welcome to My Life
Salinger
Sympathy for the Devil
May 4, 2018
PBS
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