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Wattstax

100,000 brothers and sisters turning onto being black... and telling it like it is!

Languages: en

Runtime: 98mins

Released: 1973-02-04

genres

MusicDocumentary

synopsis

A documentary film about the Afro-American Woodstock concert held in Los Angeles seven years after the Watts riots. Director Mel Stuart mixes footage from the concert with footage of the living conditions in the current-day Watts neighborhood.

The Cast

Richard Pryor
Rufus Thomas
Isaac Hayes
Melvin Van Peebles
Kim Weston
William Bell
Albert King