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Wattstax

  • February 1973
  • 1hr

    38mins

  • Music
  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Mel Stuart,

    David L. Wolper,

    Al Bell,

    Starring

    Richard Pryor,

    Rufus Thomas,

    Isaac Hayes,

    Melvin Van Peebles

    ...

    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.