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The “extraction economy” is to blame for many social ills, says Johan Grimonprez. By Steven Zeitchik Senior Editor, Technology and Politics The Oscar-nominated doc Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat is ...

Last weekend’s Academy Awards ceremony saw many firsts. Sean Baker became the first person to win four Oscars for a single film, taking home Best Picture, Best Director, Best Editing, and Best ...

The acclaimed filmmaker also discusses using music as “a historical agent” to investigate the dark colonial history of his native Belgium: "While politics is all about divide-and-conquer, it's the ...

Decolonization gets the ultimate needle-drop treatment in the documentary “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” from Belgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez. It’s a dazzling, tune-filled collage of images, words ...

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (now streaming on VOD platforms like Amazon Prime Video) commands you to lean in and pay attention and connect the dots of its story and, well, just summon the fortitude to ...

The fascinating documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d’État tracks the timeline and multiple threads in the early 1960s involving Africa’s colonial racism, keen interest in Congo’s uranium mining and ...

The Oscar-nominated documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat has received critical success through it’s focus on an international incident, a relationship between developing countries in a ...

Exclusive: Johan Grimonprez directs the Sundance award-winning documentary about the plan to assassinate Congo’s premier prime minister, Patrice Lumumba. Who knew that jazz legends like Louis ...

On June 30, 1960, colonial rule formally ended in what was then known as the Belgian Congo. Less than 200 days later, the Republic of the Congo’s charismatic prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, would be ...

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, originally a four-hour film, is still a very long 151-minute documentary by Johan Grimonprez. While the filmmaker may have at times oversimplified the intersections of US ...