Sep 05, 2016
91 min
Full-HD

I Called Him Morgan (2016)

Part jazz history, part true-crime tale, Kasper Collin’s new documentary employs extensive archival footage and new interviews to tell the tragic story of the magnificently talented trumpeter Lee Morgan and his common-law wife Helen, who murdered him in a New York bar in 1972.

Category

Music Documentary History

Country

Sweden United States of America

Companies

Kasper Collin Produktion SVT Film i Väst

Lee Morgan

Self (archive material)

Helen Morgan

Self (archive material)

Wayne Shorter

Self

Larry Reni Thomas

Self

Judith Johnson

Self

Jymie Merritt

Self

Bennie Maupin

Self

Recommended For You

War
2018
Movie

The Resistance Banker

The Resistance Banker

6.7
2018

In the occupied Netherlands during World War II, banker Walraven van Hall is asked to use his financial contacts to help the Dutch resistance. With his brother Gijs, he comes up with a risky plan to take out huge loans and use the money to finance the Resistance.

Documentary
2016
Movie

One More Time with Feeling

One More Time with Feeling

7.8
2016

Documents the writing, recording and performing of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ sixteenth studio album, Skeleton Tree.

Genre : Documentary

Music
2015
Movie

What Happened, Miss Simone?

What Happened, Miss Simone?

7.4
2015

The film chronicles Nina Simone's journey from child piano prodigy to iconic musician and passionate activist, told in her own words.

Documentary
2017
Movie

Chasing Trane

Chasing Trane

7.3
2017

An account of the life of the brilliant jazz musician John Coltrane (1926-67), a gifted saxophonist, an extraordinarily talented thinker whose original, avant-garde work has impacted and influenced people all over the world. A story about music's ability to entertain, inspire and transform.

Genre : Documentary

Crime
2017
Movie

The Swindlers

The Swindlers

6.7
2017

A group of swindlers unite to hunt down an infamous con man who was known dead, amid their hidden motives and deception.

Documentary
1956
Movie

The Mystery of Picasso

The Mystery of Picasso

7.3
1956

Using a specially designed transparent 'canvas' to provide an unobstructed view, Picasso creates as the camera rolls. He begins with simple works that take shape after only a single brush stroke. He then progresses to more complex paintings, in which he repeatedly adds and removes elements, transforming the entire scene at will, until at last the work is complete.

Genre : Documentary

Comedy
2017
Movie

Joe Mande's Award-Winning Comedy Special

Joe Mande's Award-Winning Comedy Special

5.9
2017

Stand-up comic Joe Mande aims for critical adulation with this special that covers dating shows, "Shark Tank," Jewish summer camp and much more.

Comedy
1957
Movie

Lucky Jim

Lucky Jim

5.3
1957

Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get entangled with unexciting but neurotic Margaret Peel, a friend of the Professor's. All-in-all, the pub is the only friendly place to be. His misery is completed at a dreadful weekend gathering of the Welch clan by the arrival of son Bertrand. Not so much that Betrand is loud-mouthed and boorish - which he is - but that he has as companion Christine Callaghan, the sort of marvellous and unattainable woman Jim can only dream about.

Action
2017
Movie

Wheelman

Wheelman

6.1
2017

A getaway driver for a bank robbery realizes he has been double crossed and races to find out who betrayed him.

Comedy
2020
Movie

Death to 2020

Death to 2020

6.5
2020

2020: A year so [insert adjective of choice here], even the creators of Black Mirror couldn't make it up… but that doesn't mean they don't have a little something to add. This comedy event that tells the story of the dreadful year that was — and perhaps still is? The documentary-style special weaves together some of the world's most (fictitious) renowned voices with real-life archival footage.

Drama
2019
Movie

The Report

The Report

7
2019

The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to be brutal, immoral and ineffective. With the truth at stake, Jones battled tirelessly to make public what many in power sought to keep hidden.

Drama
2018
Movie

Roma

Roma

7.6
2018

In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.

Romance
2013
Movie

Blue Is the Warmest Color

Blue Is the Warmest Color

7.1
2013

Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.

Genre : Romance

Comedy
2019
Movie

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

7.4
2019

Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie industry. Dalton is the neighbor of the young and promising actress and model Sharon Tate, who has just married the prestigious Polish director Roman Polanski…

Drama
2023
Movie

Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer

8.1
2023

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

Action
2022
Movie

Bullet Train

Bullet Train

7.4
2022

Unlucky assassin Ladybug is determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug's latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the globe—all with connected, yet conflicting, objectives—on the world's fastest train.

Crime
2019
Movie

Joker

Joker

8.1
2019

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

Comedy
2019
Movie

Parasite

Parasite

8.5
2019

All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.