Wattstax

Feb 4, 1973

1h 38m

★ 7.0

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

Overview

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.

Genres

Music

Documentary

Production Companies

Wolper Productions

Stax Records

Wattstax Trailers

Cast

Self

Richard Pryor

Self

Rufus Thomas

Self

Isaac Hayes

Self

Melvin Van Peebles

Kim Weston

William Bell

Self

Albert King

Self

Eddie Floyd

Little Milton

Carla Thomas

Self

Erik Kilpatrick

Self

Ted Lange

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7.3

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7.7

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7.0

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7.0

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