Wattstax
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Wattstax

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

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Release date

February 4, 1973

Creator / Director / Author

Mel Stuart

Runtime

98 min

Rating

6.9 / 10

Cast

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

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.

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