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.
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Cast
14 people
Richard Pryor
Self
Known for
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Superman III
Rufus Thomas
Self
Known for
Mystery Train
Cookie's Fortune
Isaac Hayes
Self
Known for
South Park
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
Melvin Van Peebles
Self
Known for
The Shining
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
Kim Weston
William Bell
Also in
Your Honor
Festival
Albert King
Self
Also in
Albert King: Live in Sweden 1980
Gary Moore With The Midnight Blues Band: An Evening Of The Blues
Eddie Floyd
Self
Also in
Blues Brothers 2000
Stax/Volt Revue Live In Norway 1967
Little Milton
Carla Thomas
Also in
Soul Collection: Back to Stax
Erik Kilpatrick
Self
Known for
Dead Again
The Color of Friendship
Ted Lange
Self
Known for
The Love Boat
Friday Foster
Mel Stuart Director · John A. Alonzo Cinematographer David Myers Cinematographer
Worldwide gross $1.6M · United States release February 4, 1973 · Produced in United States
Box office
Worldwide gross
$1,560,000
Production
Wolper Productions
Production
Stax Records
Production
Columbia Pictures
Studio
United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · February 4, 1973
Theatrical
United States
February 24, 2023 · Limited theatrical · Alamo Drafthouse
Netherlands
February 22, 2008 · Physical · DVD
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