Louis Armstrong Movies

Good-natured and devout, a French house painter takes the train to Rome, where he has decided to go on a pilgrimage. There he meets a scatterbrained...

Dr. Bill Remsen pretends to be a policeman, and ends up being assigned to guard Judy Marlowe. Amazingly, he falls in love with her.

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

Taking a look at Disneyland following nightfall, including nighttime entertainment and appearances by many celebrities of the day.

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

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

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...

In this 1957 biography film of the jazz-great Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, he and his band tour the world as American good-will ambassadors bring jazz...

A made-for-TV musical revue, compiled from soundies and film and TV performances by jazz greats from the 1930s to the 1950s.

1955 - the year when The rip hunter is buried in snow for eight days before his ski pole with a movie ticket is discovered. Ingrid Bergman gets bad...

A woman's uncontrollable jealousy over her husband's former girlfriend results in her losing not only her house but her young son is taken away from...

Arguably Russia’s most famous folk song, Dark Eyes has captured hearts around the world for the past 100 years. This portrait explores the...

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

Two rival Berlin revue theaters are vying for their big breakthrough. With top stars like jazz legend Louis Armstrong, the Kessler twins, and Bill...

Nina and Frederik were the big names in international showbiz in the 1950s with their rousing calypso rhythms. That's why "Kærlighedens Melodi"...

Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Protest

1941 Soundies musical short starring Louis Armstrong

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