In the mid-’50s, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman and Dave Brubeck took their racially integrated bands abroad—but these jazz stars faced a dilemma: how could they project an image of a tolerant America while Jim Crow segregation was still the reality back home? This documentary pairs all-star performance footage with archival film footage, photos and radio clips to reveal how these U.S. State Department tours unwittingly gave the burgeoning Civil Rights movement a major voice on the world stage. PBS.