🎬 Music, Documentary

Wattstax

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

⭐ 6.9/10 1973 1h 38m Dir. Mel Stuart

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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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6.9/10 19 votes

Quick facts

Year
1973
Runtime
1h 38m
TMDB Rating
⭐ 6.9/10
Votes
19
Genre
Music, Documentary
Director
Language
EN

Cast

🎭 Music 🎭 Documentary 🎬 Mel Stuart 👤 Richard Pryor 👤 Rufus Thomas 👤 Isaac Hayes
concert race politics musical woodstock, new york watts riots los angeles, california

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Wattstax has a runtime of 1h 38m (1 hour and 38 minutes).
Wattstax was directed by Mel Stuart and released in 1973.
Wattstax is a Music, Documentary film (1973).
The cast of Wattstax includes Richard Pryor, Rufus Thomas, Isaac Hayes, Melvin Van Peebles, Kim Weston.
Wattstax has a TMDB rating of 6.9/10 based on 19 votes.

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