Louis Armstrong Movies

  • 2022
    Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

    Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

    Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

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    Never-before-heard personal recordings and archival footage tell the story of Louis Armstrong's life from his perspective. From musical phenom to...

    Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
  • 1997
    Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory

    Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory

    Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory

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    Documentary narrated by Paul Winfield, this documentary follows the course of Mahalia Jackson's extraordinary life - from her humble beginnings as a...

    Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
  • 2001
    Louis Armstrong: 100th Anniversary 1901-2001

    Louis Armstrong: 100th Anniversary 1901-2001

    Louis Armstrong: 100th Anniversary 1901-2001

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

    Louis Armstrong: 100th Anniversary 1901-2001
  • 1945
    Pillow to Post

    Pillow to Post

    Pillow to Post

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    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....

    Pillow to Post
  • 1944
    Atlantic City

    Atlantic City

    Atlantic City

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    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...

    Atlantic City
  • 2021
    Tight Shoes

    Tight Shoes

    Tight Shoes

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    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...

    Tight Shoes
  • 1961
    Paris Blues

    Paris Blues

    Paris Blues

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    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...

    Paris Blues
  • 1944
    Jam Session

    Jam Session

    Jam Session

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

    Jam Session
  • 2014
    Jazz Legends in Their Own Words

    Jazz Legends in Their Own Words

    Jazz Legends in Their Own Words

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    A journey into the BBC archives unearthing glorious performances and candid interviews from the golden age of jazz. Featuring some of the greatest...

    Jazz Legends in Their Own Words
  • 1965
    Hallo Satchmo

    Hallo Satchmo

    Hallo Satchmo

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

    Hallo Satchmo
  • 1961
    Auf Wiedersehen

    Auf Wiedersehen

    Auf Wiedersehen

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    Auf Wiedersehen
  • 1974
    On the Road with Duke Ellington

    On the Road with Duke Ellington

    On the Road with Duke Ellington

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

    On the Road with Duke Ellington
  • 1970
    Why America

    Why America

    Why America

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    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...

    Why America
  • 2008
    Good Evening Ev'rybody: In Celebration of Louis Armstrong

    Good Evening Ev'rybody: In Celebration of Louis Armstrong

    Good Evening Ev'rybody: In Celebration of Louis Armstrong

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

    Good Evening Ev'rybody: In Celebration of Louis Armstrong
  • 2005
    Louis Armstrong: The Louis Armstrong Show

    Louis Armstrong: The Louis Armstrong Show

    Louis Armstrong: The Louis Armstrong Show

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    Best known for his unique style on the jazz trumpet (and his famously inflated cheeks), Louis Armstrong became an enduring figure in pop culture...

    Louis Armstrong: The Louis Armstrong Show
  • 1992
    Satchmo: The Life of Louis Armstrong

    Satchmo: The Life of Louis Armstrong

    Satchmo: The Life of Louis Armstrong

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    Satchmo. There are few people in this country - or around the world - who will not recognize that name. Louis Armstrong embodied 20th-century...

    Satchmo: The Life of Louis Armstrong
  • 1937
    Artists & Models

    Artists & Models

    Artists & Models

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

    Artists & Models
  • 2013
    Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong: Ella and Louis & Ella and Louis Again

    Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong: Ella and Louis & Ella and Louis Again

    Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong: Ella and Louis & Ella and Louis Again

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    Ella and Louis found Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong accompanied by the Oscar Peterson Quartet. The studio album came out when both figures were...

    Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong: Ella and Louis & Ella and Louis Again
  • 2007
    Louis Armstrong - Live In Stockholm 1962

    Louis Armstrong - Live In Stockholm 1962

    Louis Armstrong - Live In Stockholm 1962

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    Louis Armstrong live in Stockholm 1962 features a TV appearance by Armstrong from 1962 -- working on trumpet and vocals with a small group that...

    Louis Armstrong - Live In Stockholm 1962
  • 1964
    Louis Armstrong: Live in Australia

    Louis Armstrong: Live in Australia

    Louis Armstrong: Live in Australia

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    Louis Armstrong: Live in Australia