Wattstax

1973 · 98 MIN · IMDB 7.6 · 1,132 VOTES · DIR. Mel Stuart

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Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 836 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:11 All of us have something to say...
00:04:10 will satisfy so many niggers.
00:10:21 and the Watts Beauty Pageant...
00:12:32 You dig? He's lighter than I am, right?
00:14:20 It is a day of black people taking care of black people's business.
00:16:19 somebody!
00:20:19 Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!
00:24:56 the sea was raging...
00:31:05 "J. Edgar Hoover appointed me personally, posthumous.
00:36:50 lf black is beautiful, white is divine.
00:42:30 Black people rip off one another.
00:44:21 "Shit! Man, get a job?
00:47:24 I don't mean tomorrow, but right now. You dig what I'm saying?
00:49:12 I didn't want nobody to know I was weak, that weak, behind a woman.
00:56:48 "Fuck you, then. You don't have to take me no place, nigger.
00:58:44 "Boy, you check that seven. The man had his hand on the table.
01:01:59 Let me tell you the truth. I think I've had more women...
01:05:46 prefer white women, or whatever...
01:11:42 All right, I want everybody....
01:17:53 Now, will you please hold what you got?
01:20:18 'cause he'd put some shit on you.
01:25:34 I know one thing. lf I was going out with one...
01:27:23 lf the barrier is broken...
01:32:43 There's a beauty that I can communicate with this brother.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed836
Dialogue density8.5 lines / min
First line00:00:11
Final line01:32:43

Production Record

DirectorMel Stuart
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes1,132