Wattstax
1973, Film, 103 min, Comedy, Documentary, Music, English, United States, MoviePedia score 67
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.
Directed by Mel Stuart
Cast
- The Dramatics as Themselves
- The Staple Singers as Themselves
- Kim Weston as Self
- Jimmy Jones as Self
- Rance Allen as Self
- The Emotions as Themselves
- William Bell as Self
- Louise McCord as Self
- Deborah Manning Thomas as Self
- Eric Mercury as Self
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