Wattstax (1973)
100,000 brothers and sisters turning onto being black... and telling it like it is!
Wattstax is the 1973 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. The film won the Golden Globe for Best Documentary Film.
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Richard Pryor
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Isaac Hayes
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Rufus Thomas
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Melvin Van Peebles
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Kim Weston
William Bell
Albert King
Eddie Floyd
Little Milton
Carla Thomas
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MusicalLos angeles, californiaConcertBlack peopleRace politicsWoodstockWatts riotsWoodstock, new york
