"The Watts uprising of '65 turned the police into killers... a community into ashes... and a young black journalist into a hero." 13 August 1990 Drama, History, TV Movie 100 mins
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
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Cicely Tyson as Ruthana Richardson
Blair Underwood as Bob Richardson
Sally Kirkland as Mrs. Canfield
James Earl Jones as Junius Johnson
Margaret Avery as Roxie Turpin
David Strathairn as Bill Thomas
Glenn Plummer as J.T. Turpin
Vondie Curtis-Hall as Clifford Turpin
Paris Vaughan as Lada
Harold Pruett as John Riggs
Adam Arkin as Art Berman
Robert Hooks as Reverend Brooks
Michael Greene as Mr. Canfield
Charlie Korsmo as Jason (age 12)
T.E. Russell as Dominique Freeman
Stephanie Covington as Florence Blake
Klexius Kolby Makeup Artist
Kevin Hooks Director
Thomas Newman Original Music Composer
Donna Stamps Set Decoration
Debra Neil-Fisher Editor
Robi Reed Casting
Kathleen M. McKernin Art Direction
Lyn Matsuda Norton Script Supervisor
Barbara Amato Script Supervisor
Mark Irwin Director of Photography
Richard Hoover Production Design
Jane Prosnit Production Coordinator
Brad R. Loman Costume Design
Michael Lazarou Writer
Albert Aquino Boom Operator
Jeffrey J. Haboush Sound Re-Recording Mixer
United States 13 August 1990
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On August 11 1965 a routine traffic stop on a hot summer night sparks years of pent-up frustration ...
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01 June 1990
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01 January 1990
A satanic preacher comes to a small town where he unleashed the terror of the inhabitants.
02 March 1990
A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius.
12 October 1990
Upon arriving to a small town, a drifter quickly gets into trouble with the local authorities — and the local women — after he robs a bank.
13 May 1990
On a West German Autobahn, Robert plummets from a bridge and is hospitalized. As he recovers, he flashes back to a Bulgarian holiday where he met Jutta and her uncle Lothar, who’d ordered a West German passport to smuggle her out of the DDR.
15 June 1990
Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo.
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23 March 1990
Vivian is a carefree, streetwise diamond in the rough when she meets sophisticated billionaire Edward in a chance encounter that turns into a week-long business arrangement.
16 February 1990
Lucia (Natassja Kinski) is a volatile, exciteable young woman. She forms a romance with Carlo (Stefano Dionisi), who is somewhat callow and is very skittish.
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