Film · Documentary, Music
Wattstax (1973)
★ 6.8 · 21 votes1 h 38 minDocumentary, Music1973
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.
- Director
- Mel Stuart
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Release date
- February 4, 1973
Cast
Richard PryorSelf- Rufus ThomasSelf
Isaac HayesSelf
Melvin Van PeeblesSelf- Kim Weston
- William Bell
Albert KingSelf- Eddie FloydSelf
- Little Milton
Carla Thomas
Erik KilpatrickSelf
Ted LangeSelf
Ossie DavisSelf (uncredited)
Jesse JacksonSelf
