Louis Armstrong

Never-before-heard personal recordings and archival footage tell the story of Louis Armstrong’s life from his perspective. From musical ...

A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.

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 ...

Set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, this documentary mixes images of water and the town with performers and audience. The film progresses from ...

Dixieland cornetist Red Nichols runs into opposition to his sound, but breaks through to success. He marries a warm, patient woman and even finds ...

A group of beatniks unwittingly harbor a serial rapist. A cop goes after him after his wife is attacked.

With socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband – with the help of a sympathetic reporter – has 48 hours to convince her ...

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 ...

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 ...

When a turn-of-century confidence trickster poses as a famous French chanteuse to avoid arrest, she manages to expose the crooked police chief ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...