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Wattstax (1973)

Name: Wattstax
Director: Mel Stuart
Genre: Music, Documentary
Released: 1973-02-04
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Richard Pryor, Rufus Thomas, Isaac Hayes, Melvin Van Peebles, Kim Weston

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

98 min · United States of America · Dir. Mel Stuart

Music Documentary 1973 movies

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.