Wattstax

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.

• Release date
• February 4, 1973
• Runtime
• 98 min
• Genres
• Music, Documentary
• Director
• Mel Stuart

Cast

Richard Pryor Self

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Rufus Thomas Self Isaac Hayes Self Melvin Van Peebles Self

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Kim Weston

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William Bell Albert King Self

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Eddie Floyd Self