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.
- 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