Wattstax

Wattstax

Wattstax

Genres
Music Documentary

Release Date: Feb 04, 1973

Runtime: 98 minutes

Rating: 7/10

Status: Released

Production Companies
  • Wolper Productions
  • Stax Records

Overview

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.

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

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Cast

Richard Pryor, Rufus Thomas, Isaac Hayes, Melvin Van Peebles, Kim Weston ,

William Bell, Albert King, Eddie Floyd, Little Milton, Carla Thomas, Erik Kilpatrick, Ted Lange, Ossie Davis

Crew

Mel Stuart, Mel Stuart, Larry Shaw, Larry Clark, Al Bell ,

David Newhouse, David E. Blewitt, David L. Wolper, John A. Alonzo, Robert Marks, José Louis Mignone, Roderick Young, David Myers, Robert K. Lambert