Heat Wave

Aug 13, 1990

1h 40m

★ 6.2

The Watts uprising of '65 turned the police into killers... a community into ashes... and a young black journalist into a hero.

Overview

A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.

Genres

History

Drama

TV Movie

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Cast

Ruthana Richardson

Cicely Tyson

Bob Richardson

Blair Underwood

Mrs. Canfield

Sally Kirkland

Junius Johnson

James Earl Jones

Roxie Turpin

Margaret Avery

Bill Thomas

David Strathairn

J.T. Turpin

Glenn Plummer

Clifford Turpin

Vondie Curtis-Hall

Lada

Paris Vaughan

John Riggs

Harold Pruett

Art Berman

Adam Arkin

Reverend Brooks

Robert Hooks

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6.2

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