Wattstax

Name: Wattstax
Genre: Music, Documentary
Released: 1973-02-04
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 7.0
Cast: Richard Pryor, Rufus Thomas, Isaac Hayes, Melvin Van Peebles, Kim Weston

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

7.0(17 votes)

1h 38m

February 4, 1973

MusicDocumentary

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.