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

Wattstax

6.719731h 38mR
MusicDocumentary

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

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CAST

The people behind the story

Richard Pryor
Richard PryorSelf
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Rufus ThomasSelf
Isaac Hayes
Isaac HayesSelf
Melvin Van Peebles
Melvin Van PeeblesSelf
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Kim Weston
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William Bell
Albert King
Albert KingSelf
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Eddie FloydSelf

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