Mick Csáky Trailers
The Jazz Ambassadors TrailerSister Rosetta Tharpe: The Godmother of Rock & Roll TrailerMozart in Turkey Trailer
The Jazz Ambassadors TrailerSister Rosetta Tharpe: The Godmother of Rock & Roll TrailerMozart in Turkey Trailer
Total trailers found: 7
04 May 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 their mixed-race band members, faced a painful dilemma: how could they represent a country that still practiced Jim Crow segregation?
01 January 1973
In Covent Garden, Notting Hill and Tolmers Square in London, campaigners challenge property developers' plans.
01 January 1998
Documentary on the experiences of the hostages and captors when the American embassy in Iran was captured for 14 months in 1979.
19 May 2000
British director Elijah Moshinsky traveled to Istanbul's Topkapi Palace with a cast of gifted singers and actors to film a lavish production of Mozart's Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail (aka The Abduction From The Harem), and this documentary offers a look at both the behind-the-scenes efforts to put the project on screen and extended highlights from the resulting production.
24 March 1987
The story of Josephine Baker takes us on a fascinating tour of 20th-century race relations on both sides of the Atlantic, yet it leads to no conclusion, and black girls in search of a role-model tend to look elsewhere.
14 January 2011
Despite not being a household name today, Sister Rosetta Tharpe is one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.
01 January 1969
Bob Bentley's Royal College of Art degree film, produced in 1969/70. It explores aspects of his life in a deliberately puzzling manner, influenced by French New Wave cinema.