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‘Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat’ Review: What Lies Beneath

A passionate and propulsive documentary about the assassination of Patrice Lumumba spins its web in many directions.

By Alissa Wilkinson

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‘Lumumba: Death of a Prophet’: Revisiting a Mythic Figure

The 1990 documentary about Patrice Lumumba by Raoul Peck (“I Am Not Your Negro”), showing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, looks and feels newly minted.

By J. Hoberman