Wattstax

Film

Wattstax

6.819731h 38mALMusicDocumentary
United States
Age rating
AL
Director
Mel Stuart
Year
1973

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.

Top cast

Directed by

Mel Stuart

Produced by

Larry Shaw, Mel Stuart