Wattstax

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

  • Rated 6.8 out of 10
  • Movie
  • 1973
  • 1h 38m
  • Music
  • Documentary

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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Director
Mel Stuart
Starring
Richard Pryor, Rufus Thomas, Isaac Hayes, Melvin Van Peebles

Cast

  • Richard Pryor

    Richard Pryor

    Self

  • Rufus Thomas

    Self

  • Isaac Hayes

    Isaac Hayes

    Self

  • Melvin Van Peebles

    Melvin Van Peebles

    Self

  • Kim Weston

  • William Bell

  • Albert King

    Albert King

    Self

  • Eddie Floyd

    Self

  • Little Milton

  • Carla Thomas

    Carla Thomas

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