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

Wattstax (1973)

6.9/10 · 191h 38mMusic, Documentary

Directed by Mel Stuart

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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Richard Pryor
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Rufus Thomas
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Isaac Hayes
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Melvin Van Peebles
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Kim Weston
William Bell

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