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1973

Wattstax

Directed by Mel Stuart
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.

Duration

1h 38m

Released

February 4, 1973

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6.8

Rating17

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Lists12

Cast13

  • Richard Pryor
  • Rufus Thomas
  • Isaac Hayes
  • Melvin Van Peebles
  • Kim Weston
  • William Bell
  • Albert King
  • Eddie Floyd
  • Little Milton

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