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Wattstax (1973)

Wattstax (1973)

Music Documentary

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

Release Date: 1973, February 4
Directors: Mel Stuart
Countries: United States of America
Production: Wolper Productions, Stax Records, Stax Records
Cast: Isaac Hayes, Ossie Davis, Richard Pryor, Melvin Van Peebles, Erik Kilpatrick, Jesse Jackson, Ted Lange, Eddie Floyd, Albert King, Rufus Thomas

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.

Keywords:

los angeles, california musical concert race politics woodstock, new york watts riots