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Wattstax

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

70
Audience
R 1973 · 1h 38m
Documentary, Music
Starring Richard Pryor · Rufus Thomas · Isaac Hayes
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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.

Theatrical
Feb 4, 1973
Director
Mel Stuart
Producers
Mel Stuart, Larry Shaw, David L. Wolper
Studio
Wolper Productions, Stax Records
Keywords
race politics musical concert woodstock, new york watts riots los angeles, california
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Cast

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R
Richard Pryor
Self
R
Rufus Thomas
Self
I
Isaac Hayes
Self
M
Melvin Van Peebles
Self
W
William Bell
A
Albert King
Self
E
Eddie Floyd
Self
C
Carla Thomas
E
Erik Kilpatrick
Self
T
Ted Lange
Self
O
Ossie Davis
Self (uncredited)
J
Jesse Jackson
Self
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