Louis Armstrong Movies

_Jazz Icons: Louis Armstrong_ is one of the only known complete Armstrong concerts from the 1950s to be captured on film. This 55-minute set, filmed i...

A playboy helps a young woman turn her father's Nevada ranch into a haven for divorcees.

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

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

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

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

Documentary narrated by Paul Winfield, this documentary follows the course of Mahalia Jackson's extraordinary life - from her humble beginnings as a s...

In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it...

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

Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promises an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be a...

A New Orleans boxer backs out of a bout and leaves his girlfriend for Korea.

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...

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

A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.

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

Louis Armstrong performs with Nicodemus on this Soundie from 1942.

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 d...

The Stars In Concert DVD series presents the best performances of legendary artists who have secured a well-deserved place in music history. On this D...

1941 Soundies musical short starring Louis Armstrong

The story of The Blues traces the four main traditions of blues music: Form Blues, Blues, Urban Blues and Blues Electric. The blues has evolved and di...