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?

The Green Book: Guide to Freedom
2019
7.8/10

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
2019
7.1/10

I Am Not Your Negro
2017
7.7/10

Muscle Shoals
2013
7.2/10

Searching for Sugar Man
2012
7.9/10

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021
7.6/10

Amy
2015
7.6/10

Sidney
2022
6.9/10

When We Were Kings
1996
7.6/10

Coded Bias
2020
6.9/10

13th
2016
7.8/10

My Mom Jayne
2025
8.0/10

Whitney
2018
7.3/10

Salinger
2013
6.4/10

John Candy: I Like Me
2025
7.9/10

What Happened, Miss Simone?
2015
7.4/10

Biggie & Tupac
2002
6.4/10

The Bloody Hundredth
2024
7.2/10

Supersonic
2016
7.4/10

Chris Brown: Welcome to My Life
2017
6.4/10
Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp
2022
0/10