Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues offers an intimate and revealing look at the world-changing musician, presented through a lens of archival footage and never-before-heard home recordings and personal conversations.

Armstrong’s life spanned the shift from the Civil War to the Civil Rights movement, and he became a lightning rod figure in that turbulent era.

This definitive documentary, directed by Sacha Jenkins, honours Armstrong’s legacy as a founding father of jazz, one of the first internationally known and beloved stars, and a cultural ambassador to the United States.