Louis Armstrong Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

Louis Armstrong performs with Nicodemus on this Soundie from 1942.

1941 Soundies musical short starring Louis Armstrong

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

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...

The memories of a woman, condensed into four periods.

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

Louis Armstrong and his Sleepy Time Down South.

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