Wattstax (1973)
100,000 brothers and sisters turning onto being black... and telling it like it is!
103 min
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.
- Release date
- February 4, 1973
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- The Dramatics as Themselves
- The Staple Singers as Themselves
- Kim Weston as Self
- Jimmy Jones as Self
- Rance Allen as Self
- The Emotions as Themselves
- William Bell as Self
- Louise McCord as Self
- Deborah Manning Thomas as Self
- Eric Mercury as Self
Crew
- Mel Stuart · Director
- Larry Shaw · Producer
- Mel Stuart · Producer
- John A. Alonzo · Cinematographer
- Larry Clark · Cinematographer
- Robert Marks · Cinematographer
- José Louis Mignone · Cinematographer
- David E. Blewitt · Editor
- Tom Christopher · Editor
- Robert K. Lambert · Editor
- David Newhouse · Editor