movie-poster

Wattstax

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

6.8 / 10

98 minutes

1973-02-04

English

US

Actors :

Richard Pryor, Rufus Thomas, Isaac Hayes, Melvin Van Peebles, Kim Weston, William Bell, Albert King, Eddie Floyd, Little Milton, Carla Thomas, Erik Kilpatrick

Description

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.