Wattstax (1973)

"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.

Mel Stuart 98 min United States of America

DirectorMel Stuart

CastIsaac Hayes, Kim Weston, Melvin Van Peebles, Richard Pryor, Rufus Thomas, William Bell

CountryUnited States of America

Duration98 min