Louis Armstrong

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (2024)

Jazz and decolonization are intertwined in a powerful narrative that recounts one of the tensest episodes of the Cold War. ...

Coldplay: Music of the Spheres - Live Broadcast from Buenos Aires (2022)

Experience the stunning spectacle of Coldplay's record-breaking Music Of The Spheres world tour at your local cinema with this spectacular worldwide live broadcast of the band's sold out concert at Buenos Aires' River Plate stadium directly from Argentina ...

The Sound of 007 (2022)

Pull back the curtain on the remarkable history of six decades of James Bond music, from Sean Connery's Dr No through to Daniel Craig's final outing in No Time to Die. ...

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues (2022)

Never-before-heard personal recordings and archival footage tell the story of Louis Armstrong's life from his perspective. From musical phenom to civil rights activist to world-renowned artist, this illuminating film shows sides of Armstrong few have seen. ...

Dark Eyes (2021)

Arguably Russia's most famous folk song, Dark Eyes has captured hearts around the world for the past 100 years. This portrait explores the song's somewhat controversial history, its musical versatility and its cultural relevance. Performances by Louis Arms ...

Louis Armstrong in Concert (2021)

First broadcast on the centenary of his birth, legendary jazz trumpeter and vocalist Louis Armstrong in performance. ...

Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal (2019)

Born in 1941, Eric Burdon was – along with his band The Animals – one of the most important standard-bearers of the British Invasion of America, right after The Beatles and ahead of The Rolling Stones, The Who and The Kinks. Their 1964 interpretation o ...

The Jazz Ambassadors (2018)

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 t ...

Bing Crosby: Rediscovered (2014)

Bing Crosby was, without a doubt, the most popular and influential multi-media star of the first half of the twentieth century, pulling audiences in with his intimate, laid-back voice and innate charm. Narrated by Stanley Tucci and directed by Robert Trach ...

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong: Ella and Louis & Ella and Louis Again (2013)

Ella and Louis found Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong accompanied by the Oscar Peterson Quartet. The studio album came out when both figures were at high points in their careers commercially. The recording sessions getting started in August 1956, the tr ...

…Sings Musicals (2012)

BBC archive performances from musicals, including Ella Fitzgerald singing Mack the Knife, Captain Sensible performing a classic from South Pacific and Jay Z taking on Annie. ...

Bert Stern - Original Madman (2011)

The untold and intimate life story of one of the greatest American photographers of all time, Bert Stern. After working alongside Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine, Stern became an original Madison Avenue 'mad man', his images helping to create modern adver ...

The Best Of Louis Armstrong: Satchmo At His Best (2009)

The Stars In Concert DVD series presents the best performances of legendary artists who have secured a well-deserved place in music history. On this DVD, youll find an anthology of Louis Armstrongs best TV performances. A great tribute to a great artist. T ...

Jazz Evolution (2008)

Good Evening Ev'rybody: In Celebration of Louis Armstrong (2008)

Documenting Louis Armstrong's appearance at the 1970 Newport Jazz Festival. ...

Music Inn (2007)

During a decade rife with paranoia, in the middle of the McCarthy era, Music Inn was a bold experiment. Halfway between the Second World War and The Civil Rights Movement, Phil and Stephanie Barber created an oasis in the Berkshire Hills in Western Massach ...

Louis Armstrong - Live In Stockholm 1962 (2007)

Louis Armstrong live in Stockholm 1962 features a TV appearance by Armstrong from 1962 -- working on trumpet and vocals with a small group that includes Trummy Young on trombone -- and which features Monica Zetterlund guesting on vocals on one number, and ...

Louis Armstrong: Live in '59 (2006)

_Jazz Icons: Louis Armstrong_ is one of the only known complete Armstrong concerts from the 1950s to be captured on film. This 55-minute set, filmed in Belgium in 1959, features many of Satchmo's greatest songs including "Mack The Knife", "When It's Sleepy ...

Frankie Laine: An American Dreamer (2006)

"Frankie Laine: An American Dreamer" is a feature-length documentary. In this entertaining look at the legendary singer's life, hosted by two-time Grammy award singer Lou Rawls, Frankie tells his own story. Classic archive footage of the great performances ...

Billie Holiday: The Ultimate Collection (2005)

This remarkable DVD includes rare TV and film performances, an especially rare radio interview with Mike Wallace, an audio-only rehearsal session with pianist Jimmy Rowles, audio interviews with friends and fellow musicians, an interactive timeline and an ...

Året var 1955 (2005)

1955 - the year when The rip hunter is buried in snow for eight days before his ski pole with a movie ticket is discovered. Ingrid Bergman gets bad reviews as Joan of Arc, and James Dean dies in a 185 km/h car crash. The knappupgänget, with Povel Ramel an ...

Louis Armstrong: The Louis Armstrong Show (2005)

Best known for his unique style on the jazz trumpet (and his famously inflated cheeks), Louis Armstrong became an enduring figure in pop culture thanks to his distinctively phrased bass singing and engaging personality. Produced by Armstrong in the 1960s, ...

The Story Of The Blues (2004)

The story of The Blues traces the four main traditions of blues music: Form Blues, Blues, Urban Blues and Blues Electric. The blues has evolved and diversified, and filtered into a surprising variety of styles in contemporary music. In the blues the histor ...

The Harlem Renaissance (2004)

Chronicling the Harlem Renaissance era, this retrospective documentary tracks the origins of the soulful music of the period, along with the challenges many of the genre's artists faced when trying to gain recognition within conventional society. Included ...

Cole Porter in Hollywood: True Love (2003)

A short documentary about the making of the 1956 film, High Society. Hosted by Celeste Holm. ...

It's Black Entertainment (2002)

A star-studded tribute (from the creators of That's Entertainment) to the contributions of Afro-Americans in film over the last century. Vanessa Williams traces the struggles and triumphs of the superstars of music and film. Among the many artists featured ...

Louis Armstrong: 100th Anniversary 1901-2001 (2001)

A documentary featuring archive footage to celebrate the 100th birth of jazz legend Louis Armstrong. ...

The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong (1999)

Louis Armstrong is one of the most recognizable figures in jazz, with his incomparable trumpet playing and beaming smile. This video profiles Armstrong from his humble beginnings in New Orleans through his career as America's Ambassador of Good Will. Film ...

Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory (1997)

Documentary narrated by Paul Winfield, this documentary follows the course of Mahalia Jackson's extraordinary life - from her humble beginnings as a sickly child singing in New Orleans churches to her breakthrough with Columbia Records and her ascendancy t ...

Benny Goodman - Adventures In The Kingdom Of Swing (1993)

This biography of musical legend Benny Goodman contains testimonials from various contemporaries and scholars, and offers several clips of the man in performance. Nearly two-dozen songs can be heard including "California, Here I Come," "A Fine Romance," "W ...

Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (1993)

Blues as a genre shaped the sound of jazz in the early 20th century and directly led to the creation of rock 'n' roll in the '50s. The scales, chords, and progressions of blues as a musical form can be found in styles from jazz to rock to contemporary R&B. ...

The Best Of Danny Kaye - The Television Years (1993)

Legendary showman Danny Kaye's greatest moments have been handpicked by Kaye's daughter, Dena, in this lighthearted compilation. Highlights ranging from Kaye's many television and film appearances are featured in all of their old Hollywood splendor, among ...

Satchmo: The Life of Louis Armstrong (1992)

Satchmo. There are few people in this country - or around the world - who will not recognize that name. Louis Armstrong embodied 20th-century American culture. He revolutionized the world of music and became one of the nation's most influential entertainer ...

The Magic of Bing Crosby (1991)

Rosemary Clooney, Michael Feistein, and wife Kathryn Crosby celebrate the voice and singing style of crooner Bing Crosby through clips from his theatrical shorts from the 30s and 40s and archival footage from his television appearances from the 60s and 70s ...

Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet (1982)

Through interviews, archival footage, photos and classic tunes, learn about the remarkable career and troubled life of legendary jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke, who influenced countless musicians before alcoholism lead to his premature death. Close friends ...

That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)

Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire present more golden moments from the MGM film library, this time including comedy and drama as well as classic musical numbers. ...

On the Road with Duke Ellington (1974)

Documentary portrait of the legendary jazz bandleader. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2000. ...

Why America (1970)

A film about America between the world wars that attempts to capture and interpret the vital moving forces in American society that caused the United States to emerge by the end of World War II as a dominant world power. ...

Hello, Dolly! (1969)

Dolly Levi is a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in order to see the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder. In doing so, she convinces his niece, his niece's intended, and Horace's two clerks to trav ...

A Man Called Adam (1966)

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

Rhein-Melodie - Wein, Gesang und gute Laune (1966)

When the Boys Meet the Girls (1965)

A playboy helps a young woman turn her father's Nevada ranch into a haven for divorcees. ...

Hallo Satchmo (1965)

In 1965, during eminent trumpeter Louis Armstrong's visit to Prague, Jan Spata then a young promising documentary filmmaker, created the report 'Hallo Satchmo'. ...

Louis Armstrong v Praze (1965)

Louis Armstrong: Live in Australia (1964)

Berlin-Melodie (1963)

Disneyland After Dark (1962)

Taking a look at Disneyland following nightfall, including nighttime entertainment and appearances by many celebrities of the day. ...

Auf Wiedersehen (1961)

Paris Blues (1961)

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 and love. ...

Jazz on a Summer's Day (1960)

Set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, this documentary mixes images of water and the town with performers and audience. The film progresses from day to night and from improvisational music to Gospel. It's a concert film that suggests peace and leisure, ja ...

Kærlighedens melodi (1959)

Nina and Frederik were the big names in international showbiz in the 1950s with their rousing calypso rhythms. That's why "Kærlighedens Melodi" (The Melody of Love) was bound to be a hit when the young, beautiful couple teamed up with the legendary, wonde ...

La Paloma (1959)

Two rival Berlin revue theaters are vying for their big breakthrough. With top stars like jazz legend Louis Armstrong, the Kessler twins, and Bill Ramsey, they try to outdo and outmaneuver one another. ...

The Beat Generation (1959)

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

The Five Pennies (1959)

Dixieland cornetist Red Nichols runs into opposition to his sound, but breaks through to success. He marries a warm, patient woman and even finds time to raise a family. Then tragedy strikes when their daughter contracts polio. ...

The All-Star Christmas Show (1958)

This 1958 Christmas spectacular was produced by the USO for the entertainment of troops stationed overseas. Over 50 top names from stage, screen and television appear in this truly all-star concert film - a magical evening of music, comedy and fun. Feeatur ...

The Edsel Show (1957)

Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra host a program that's wall-to-wall music. ...

Satchmo the Great (1957)

In this 1957 biography film of the jazz-great Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, he and his band tour the world as American good-will ambassadors bring jazz at its best to the people of the world. Within the film, the life of Louis Armstrong is portrayed through t ...

High Society (1956)

With socialite Tracy Lord about to remarry, her ex-husband - with the help of a sympathetic reporter - has 48 hours to convince her that she really still loves him. ...

Jazz Ball (1956)

A made-for-TV musical revue, compiled from soundies and film and TV performances by jazz greats from the 1930s to the 1950s. ...

The Glenn Miller Story (1954)

A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1940s. ...

Saluti e baci (1953)

Carlo Mastelli, the young radio presenter of "New Voices" has run short of ideas and his program is likely to be suspended from the radio schedule if he does not find any new ones. ...

Glory Alley (1952)

A New Orleans boxer leaves the ring to fight his inner demons. ...

Here Comes the Groom (1951)

Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted. ...

The Strip (1951)

Drummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own jazz club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of her murder. ...

I'm in the Revue (1950)

Good-natured and devout, a French house painter takes the train to Rome, where he has decided to go on a pilgrimage. There he meets a scatterbrained dresser who has been assigned by a music hall star to bring her the gown she is to wear on stage. The two m ...

A Song Is Born (1948)

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 nightclub singer Honey Swanson. But Honey's gangster boyfriend doesn't want to give her up. ...

New Orleans (1947)

A gambling hall owner relocates from New Orleans to Chicago and entertains his patrons with hot jazz by Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Woody Herman, and others. ...

Pillow to Post (1945)

With a war on and most men being drafted, Howard Oil Supply Company has no salesmen left. So daughter Jean hits the road and does not make one sale. She finally gets one tentative sale with the Black Hills Oil Co., but Earl wants dinner with her. With the ...

Atlantic City (1944)

In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it can be "the playground of the world." Brad's wheeling and dealing proves remarkably successful in attracti ...

Jam Session (1944)

A young woman from Kansas (Ann Miller) arrives in Hollywood with hopes of a movie career. ...

Show-Business at War (1943)

A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort. ...

Cabin in the Sky (1943)

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 for six months to prove that he deserves to be in heaven. He awakens, remembering nothing and struggles to do ri ...

Shine (1942)

Louis Armstrong performs with Nicodemus on this Soundie from 1942. ...

Swingin' on Nothin' (1942)

1941 Soundies musical short starring Louis Armstrong ...

Birth of the Blues (1941)

Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted by the cafe society of ...

Going Places (1938)

A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for. ...

Doctor Rhythm (1938)

Dr. Bill Remsen pretends to be a policeman, and ends up being assigned to guard Judy Marlowe. Amazingly, he falls in love with her. ...

Every Day's a Holiday (1937)

In turn-of-the-century New York City, con artist Peaches O'Day befriends Captain Jim McCarey, a cop who must turn her in unless she leaves town. The clever Peaches returns transformed as sultry brunette and Parisian sensation Mademoiselle Fifi. After catch ...

Artists & Models (1937)

An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign. ...

Pennies from Heaven (1936)

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 be a young girl, Patsy Smith, and her elderly grandfather who need lots of help. This delays Larry from follow ...

København, Kalundborg og -? (1934)

Ludvig Brandstrup is a radio announcer and performs with great experience in front of the microphone. But the director is not exactly taking care of his duties; he has forgotten to inform the artists who will assist with the broadcast. This forgetfulness i ...

Louis Armstrong in Copenhagen (1934)

After a decade performing in and recording with the top hot jazz bands of New Orleans, Chicago and New York, legendary trumpeter and vocalist Louis Armstrong moved to Los Angeles in 1930, and then toured Europe. Armstrong's work in this period remains a fo ...

I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You (1932)

Betty Boop and friends meet Louis Armstrong on a jungle safari. ...

A Rhapsody in Black and Blue (1932)

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 soapsuds where Louis Armstrong performs 'I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You' and 'Shine'. ...

Key of Gibraltar (2025)

A day prior to embarking on a European trip with his cousin Artie. Greg, a recent college graduate receives a once in a lifetime opportunity granted to him by the support of his friend Tina and her influential family. Despite the positives, he is lost and ...

'Tis The Season (2023)

After Matt's feelings over take him, he confronts his friend, Seth, wondering why he never got the present he deserved, only to find his friend felt the same way. These two friend's begin to fight over there feeling only to find the true meaning to Christm ...

Espetáculo (2023)

Tight Shoes (2021)

After having his shoes polished, a deadbeat runs away without paying for this task. Deceived, it is up to the shoeshine boy to chase the crook in order to charge him for the service he has just provided. ...

And I think to myself, what a wonderful world. (2019)

Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Protest ...

On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

With the help of Marc-Ange Draco, head of the Unione Corse crime syndicate, and Draco's troubled daughter Tracy, James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Stravro Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss Alps, where he is training an army of beautiful ...