“The Watts uprising of '65 turned the police into killers... a community into ashes... and a young black journalist into a hero.”
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
- Status
- Released
- Original Language
- English
Cast
Cicely TysonRuthana Richardson
Blair UnderwoodBob Richardson
Sally KirklandMrs. Canfield
James Earl JonesJunius Johnson
Margaret AveryRoxie Turpin
David StrathairnBill Thomas
Glenn PlummerJ.T. Turpin
Vondie Curtis-HallClifford Turpin
Paris VaughanLada
Harold PruettJohn Riggs
Adam ArkinArt Berman
Robert HooksReverend BrooksMedia
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A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
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The movie stars Cicely Tyson, Blair Underwood, Sally Kirkland, James Earl Jones, Margaret Avery and more.
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