Wattstax
Wattstax
Genres
Production Companies
- Wolper Productions
- Stax Records
Overview
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.
"100,000 brothers and sisters turning onto being black... and telling it like it is!"
Cast
Richard Pryor, Rufus Thomas, Isaac Hayes, Melvin Van Peebles, Kim Weston , View More
William Bell, Albert King, Eddie Floyd, Little Milton, Carla Thomas, Erik Kilpatrick, Ted Lange, Ossie Davis
Crew
Mel Stuart, Larry Shaw, Mel Stuart, David L. Wolper, Al Bell , View More
John A. Alonzo, Larry Clark, Robert Marks, José Louis Mignone, Roderick Young, David Myers, David E. Blewitt, Robert K. Lambert, David Newhouse
