Wattstax
1973
6.7 (20)
1 hr 38 min
English
100,000 brothers and sisters turning onto being black... and telling it like it is!
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Production
- Wolper Productions, Stax Records
Keywords
- concert
- race politics
- musical
- woodstock, new york
- watts riots
- los angeles, california
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Top Cast
Richard Pryor as Self
Rufus Thomas as Self
Isaac Hayes as Self
Melvin Van Peebles as Self
Kim Weston as
William Bell as
Albert King as Self
Eddie Floyd as Self
Top Crew
Mel Stuart · Director
John A. Alonzo · Cinematographer
Larry Clark · Cinematographer
David E. Blewitt · Editor
Robert K. Lambert · Editor
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