Louis Armstrong
- 2024
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat7.431 Sep. 11, 2024 HD
Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest episodes of the Cold War. In 1960, the UN became ...
Genre: Documentary,History,Music
Actors:Andrée Blouin, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Nikita Khrushchev, Patrice Lumumba
- 2022
Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues
Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues6.6 Oct. 27, 2022 HD
An intimate and revealing look at the world-changing musician, presented through a lens of archival footage and never-before-heard home ...
Genre: Documentary
Actors:Dwight D. Eisenhower, Louis Armstrong, Wynton Marsalis
- 2011
Bert Stern – Original Madman
Bert Stern – Original Madman7.611 Sep. 02, 2011 HD
The untold and intimate life story of one of the greatest American photographers of all time, Bert Stern. After working alongside Stanley Kubrick ...
Genre: Documentary,History
Actors:Louis Armstrong, Marilyn Monroe, Twiggy
- 1966
A Man Called Adam
A Man Called Adam5.962 Mar. 16, 1966 HD
A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.
Actors:Cicely Tyson, Frank Sinatra Jr., Louis Armstrong, Sammy Davis Jr.
- 1961
Paris Blues
Paris Blues6.5 Sep. 27, 1961 HD
During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls and must decide between music ...
- 1960
Jazz on a Summer’s Day
Jazz on a Summer’s Day7.231 Mar. 28, 1960 HD
Set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, this documentary mixes images of water and the town with performers and audience. The film progresses from ...
Genre: Documentary,Music
Actors:Chico Hamilton, Dinah Washington, Gerry Mulligan, Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson
- 1959
The Five Pennies
The Five Pennies6.66 Jun. 18, 1959 HD
Dixieland cornetist Red Nichols runs into opposition to his sound, but breaks through to success. He marries a warm, patient woman and even finds ...
Actors:Barbara Bel Geddes, Bob Crosby, Danny Kaye, Harry Guardino, Louis Armstrong
- 1959
The Beat Generation
The Beat Generation5.2 Jul. 03, 1959 HD
A group of beatniks unwittingly harbor a serial rapist. A cop goes after him after his wife is attacked.
Genre: Crime
Actors:Fay Spain, Louis Armstrong, Mamie Van Doren, Steve Cochran
- 1948
A Song Is Born
A Song Is Born6.5 Oct. 19, 1948 HD
The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome ...
Actors:Benny Goodman, Danny Kaye, Louis Armstrong, Tommy Dorsey, Virginia Mayo
- 1943
Cabin in the Sky
Cabin in the Sky6.5 Mar. 24, 1943 HD
When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth ...
Actors:Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Ethel Waters, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong
- 1936
Pennies from Heaven
Pennies from Heaven6.875 Nov. 25, 1936 HD
Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promises an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to ...
Actors:Bing Crosby, Donald Meek, Edith Fellows, Louis Armstrong, Madge Evans
- 1932
A Rhapsody in Black and Blue
A Rhapsody in Black and Blue6.1 Mar. 20, 1932 HD
A husband who listens to jazz instead of mopping the floor is brained with a mop by his wife; he dreams he’s King of Jazzmania, a land of ...
Genre: Music