Wattstax

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.

Cast

Richard Pryor

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Rufus Thomas

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Isaac Hayes

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Melvin Van Peebles

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Kim Weston

William Bell

Albert King

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Eddie Floyd

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Little Milton

Carla Thomas

Erik Kilpatrick

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Ted Lange

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