Looking for where to watch 'The First Rasta' at home? Here’s where you can watch it, including streaming and cable services with rental, purchase, and subscription options, all in one place. Right now in the US, 'The First Rasta' is available to rent, buy, or stream with a subscription on Kanopy.
Here are some helpful extras before you press play about the documentary flick. The First Rasta starring The Abyssinians, Leonard Percival Lowell, Marcus Garvey, Max Romeo has a Not Rated rating, a runtime of about 1 hr 26 min. The movie received a user score of 40/100 on TMDb, which is based on reviews from 2 active users.
Let’s set the scene for you... Here's the plot: "Going far beyond the standard imagery of Rasta—ganja, reggae, and dreadlocks—this cultural history offers an uncensored vision of a movement with complex roots and the exceptional journey of a man who taught an enslaved people how to be proud and impose their culture on the world. In the 1920s Leonard Percival Howell and the First Rastas had a revelation concerning the divinity of Haile Selassie, king of Ethiopia, that established the vision for the most popular mystical movement of the 20th century, Rastafarianism. Although jailed, ridiculed, and treated as insane, Howell, also known as the Gong, established a Rasta community of 4,500 members, the first agro-industrial enterprise devoted to producing marijuana. In the late 1950s the community was dispersed, disseminating Rasta teachings throughout the ghettos of the island. A young singer named Bob Marley adopted Howell's message, and through Marley's visions, reggae made its explosion in the music world."
