Wattstax

Name: Wattstax
Genre: Music, Documentary
Released: 1973-02-04

1973

Directed by Mel Stuart

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

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.

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 Jesse Jackson

Released4 February 1973

StatusReleased

Runtime1h 38m

RatedR

ProductionWolper Productions, Stax Records

CountriesUnited States of America

Original languageEnglish

Community Ratings

External score

3.4

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