Release Date

04 May, 2018

Runtime

01:00: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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?

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Actors

Leslie Odom Jr.

Quincy Jones

Dizzy Gillespie

Louis Armstrong

Darius Brubeck

Bill Crow

Duke Ellington

Charlie Persip

Crew

Hugo Berkeley

Michael J. McEvoy

Nse Asuquo

Mick Csáky

Andre Lascaris

Dewald Aukema