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    Wattstax 1973 POSTER

    Wattstax

    1973

    English

    7.6

    ♡ 4

    90%

    89%

    Action

    black people

    Comedy

    concert

    Documentary

    Music

    musical

    race politics

    watts riots

    woodstock, new york

    Mel Stuart Mel Stuart Director Jesse Jackson Jesse Jackson as Self Isaac Hayes Isaac Hayes as Self Melvin Van Peebles Melvin Van Peebles as Self Mavis Staples Mavis Staples as Self - The Staple Singers
    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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