"100,000 brothers and sisters turning onto being black... and telling it like it is!" 04 February 1973 Factual, Music 98 mins
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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Richard Pryor as Self
Rufus Thomas as Self
Isaac Hayes as Self
Melvin Van Peebles as Self
Albert King as Self
Eddie Floyd as Self
Erik Kilpatrick as Self
Ted Lange as Self
Ossie Davis as Self (uncredited)
Jesse Jackson as Self
Mel Stuart Director
Larry Shaw Producer
Mel Stuart Producer
David L. Wolper Executive Producer
Al Bell Executive Producer
John A. Alonzo Director of Photography
Larry Clark Director of Photography
Robert Marks Director of Photography
José Louis Mignone Director of Photography
Roderick Young Director of Photography
David Myers Director of Photography
David E. Blewitt Editor
Robert K. Lambert Editor
David Newhouse Editor
Netherlands 22 February 2008
United States 24 February 2023
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23 August 1973
In the last days of WW2, women are volunteering from all over Germany to serve in the front lines by having sex with the brave Nazi soldiers.
01 January 1973
In 1972 and '73, film critic Richard Schickel made an 8-part series for American public television: 'The Men Who Made the Movies'.
03 July 1973
In 1913, in Oklahoma, oil derrick owner Lena Doyle, aided by her father and a hobo, is stubbornly drilling for oil despite the pressure from major oil companies to sell her land.
19 October 1973
Sam and Buddy, two highway robbers, join with Colonel Quint, a big crook, who sold his services to Morgan, the banker, in order to free Baby, the banker's daughter, abducted by Espartero and his killers gang.
24 December 1973
The innkeeper Barnabáš and the teacher Isidor Slovíčko succumb to the lure of old Moreles, to whom the young Taussig sends enthusiastic letters from America.
02 April 1973
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10 February 1973
A timid bank clerk is pressured by gangsters, his girlfriend and his fellow employees to help steal the bank's supply of dollars.
05 May 1973
The archangel Gabriel is sent to earth to announce the end of the decaying human race with his trumpet.
12 October 1973
Shanta Dhamle lives a wealthy lifestyle in Bombay along with her dad, Shamrao, and mom, Ansuya. She incurs their displeasure when she falls in love and gets married to a poor and overly sensitive writer, Gopal, who moves in with them, and continues to suffer verbal abuse at Shamrao's hands.
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