Noble Sissle's Syncopated Ragtime(2018)
Noble Sissle brought Ragtime to France and started the European obsession with Black music.
Combining footage unseen since WWI with original scores from the era, this film tells the story of Noble Sissle's incredible journey that spans "The Harlem Hellfighters" of World War I, Broadway Theatre, the Civil Rights movement, and decades of Black cultural development.
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