“The Watts uprising of '65 turned the police into killers... a community into ashes... and a young black journalist into a hero.”
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
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26 people
Cicely Tyson
Ruthana Richardson
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Blair Underwood
Bob Richardson
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Sally Kirkland
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James Earl Jones
Junius Johnson
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Obi-Wan Kenobi
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Margaret Avery
Roxie Turpin
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The Color Purple
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David Strathairn
Bill Thomas
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The Bourne Ultimatum
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Glenn Plummer
J.T. Turpin
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Vondie Curtis-Hall
Clifford Turpin
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Paris Vaughan
Lada
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Harold Pruett
John Riggs
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Adam Arkin
Art Berman
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Robert Hooks
Reverend Brooks
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Kevin Hooks Director · Michael Lazarou Writer Thomas Newman Composer
United States release August 13, 1990 · Produced in United States
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United States
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English
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English
Release dates
United States · August 13, 1990
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