Wattstax
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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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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Directors
Mel Stuart
Cast
Richard Pryor, Rufus Thomas, Isaac Hayes, Melvin Van Peebles, Kim Weston, William Bell, Albert King, Eddie Floyd, Little Milton, Carla Thomas, Erik Kilpatrick, Ted Lange, Ossie Davis, Jesse Jackson
Production
Wolper Productions, Stax Records
Languages
English
Countries
United States of America
