Wattstax

Story Line

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!”

Top Cast

Richard Pryor

Self

Rufus Thomas

Self

Isaac Hayes

Self

Melvin Van Peebles

Self

Kim Weston

William Bell