Wattstax (1973)

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

Cast

Richard Pryor, Rufus Thomas, Isaac Hayes, Melvin Van Peebles, Kim Weston

Overview

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.