A look at Armstrong’s legacy as a founding father of jazz, one of the first internationally known and beloved stars, and a cultural ambassador of the United States. Armstrong’s own life spans the shift from the Civil War to the Civil Rights movement, when he became a lightning rod figure in a turbulent era.
Presented at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Louis Armstrong`s Black & Blues
2022
14 years
104 min.
Documentary
USA
art, activism, biopic, discrimination, USA, international festivais, history, identity, memory, musical, politics, racism, social portrait
P&B
Sacha Jenkins
Ed Lachman
Jason Pollard, Alma Herrera-Pazmiño
Sara Bernstein, Justin Wilkes, Sacha Jenkins, Julie Anderson
Imagine Documentaries
Apple TV+
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