Wattstax
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. The film won the Golden Globe for Best Documentary Film.
- Year: 1973
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Music, Documentary
- Studio: Wolper Productions, Stax Records
- Keyword: concert, black people, race politics, musical, woodstock, new york, watts riots, los angeles, california
- Director: Mel Stuart
- Cast: Richard Pryor, Rufus Thomas, Isaac Hayes, Melvin Van Peebles, Kim Weston, William Bell