Come for the jazz, stay for the lesson in United Nations and anti-colonial history. This film artfully blends music by Black jazz greats from the USA, archival footage, narration of memoirs, and graphic text. It shows the complex politics of shifting alliances, interests and suspicions during the period of the Cold War, African independence movements, and the US Civil Rights movement. At one point a former British spy says that "All you have to do is insinuate things to create factions and they'll destroy each other." Quite chilling in today's political atmosphere in the US.
Do watch with the subtitles on as numerous languages are heard.

Fun and silly spoof of the celebrity biopic genre as well as many others. The Hollywood party scene has great cameos of the other "weird" celebs of the time, some introduced and others you have to pick out of the crowd - an unexpected delight for those of us who remember the '80's.