Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Released on
Music, Documentary, History
Runtime
117 mins
(190 votes)

During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture, and promoting Black pride and unity. The footage from the festival sat in a basement, unseen for over 50 years, keeping this incredible event in America's history lost — until now.

Cast

  • Stevie Wonder
  • Lin-Manuel Miranda
  • Chris Rock
  • Tony Lawrence
  • Nina Simone
  • B.B. King
  • Abbey Lincoln
  • Mavis Staples
  • Mahalia Jackson
  • David Ruffin
  • Sly Stone
  • Hugh Masekela
  • John V. Lindsay
  • Ray Barretto
  • Herbie Mann
  • Mongo Santamaría
  • Questlove
  • Luis A. Miranda Jr.
  • Walter Cronkite
  • Malcolm X
  • Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Robert F. Kennedy
  • Richard Nixon
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Jesse Jackson
  • Moms Mabley
  • Max Roach
  • Fidel Castro
  • Redd Foxx

Director

  • Questlove

Producers

  • Robert Fyvolent
  • David Dinerstein
  • Joseph Patel

Screenwriter

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