Johan Grimonprez uses archival footage of the period to expose the CIA-backed assassination of Congo leader Patrice Lumumba ...

The “extraction economy” is to blame for many social ills, says Johan Grimonprez. The Oscar-nominated doc Soundtrack to a ...

Likewise, in Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, music is at the forefront of events that aren't as well known as the Nazi's rise to ...

Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo – Shortly before noon on a Thursday in June 1960, 34-year-old Patrice Lumumba stepped up to the podium at the Palace of the Nation in Leopoldville (current ...

Congo’s government says the mausoleum of assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba in the capital, Kinshasa, has been vandalized. It's not immediately clear whether Lumumba’s remains ...

Regional conflicts, murderous militias, the exploitation of natural resources, innocent civilians forced to flee their homes; ...

As with any subject, history can be explored in a number of ways. In high school and college, students might study it through reading textbooks, by consulting various websites, paying attention (or ...

Interview - Director Johan Grimonprez discusses Soundtrack to a Coup d'État, his powerful exploration of Congo's decolonization struggle, in conversation with Peter Mertens, Belgian political leader ...

Patrice Lumumba, and the role that American jazz music played in the saga. And in turn, Grimonprez structures and paces the film like a complex mid-century jazz suite, skittering and scatting ...