Soul Power

The greatest music festival that you have never seen.

Soul Power is a 2008 documentary film about the Zaire 74 music festival in Kinshasa which accompanied the Rumble in the Jungle heavyweight boxing championship match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in October 1974. The film was made from archival footage; other footage shot at the time focusing on the fight was edited to form the film When We Were Kings.

Cast

James Brown

Self (archive footage)

Bill Withers

Self (archive footage)

B.B. King

Self (archive footage)

Muhammad Ali

Self (archive footage)

Don King

Self (archive footage)

Manu Dibango

Self

Lola Love

Self

Franco Luombo

Self

Miriam Makeba

Self (archive footage)

Celia Cruz

Self (archive footage)

Hugh Masekela

Self (archive footage)

Johnny Pacheco

Self (archive footage)