Release Date
📅
Original Release
July 2, 2021
1h 57m
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)
⭐ 7.6117 min
Overview
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.
Director
Questlove
Department: Acting
⭐Popularity: 1.0
Cast
Stevie Wonder
Self
⭐2.2
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Self - Artist
⭐3.0
Chris Rock
Self - Artist
⭐3.7
Tony Lawrence
Self - Harlem Cultural Festival Producer & Host (archive footage)
⭐0.2
Nina Simone
Self (archive footage)
⭐1.1
B.B. King
Self (archive footage)
⭐0.6
Abbey Lincoln
Self (archive footage)
⭐0.7
Mavis Staples
Self - Singer (archive footage) (voice)
⭐0.5
Mahalia Jackson
Self (archive footage)
⭐0.8
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David Ruffin
Self
⭐0.1
Genres
MusicDocumentaryHistory
Production Companies
Mass Distraction Media
RadicalMedia
Vulcan Productions
Concordia Studio
