Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
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The same summer as Woodstock, 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival — and the footage sat unseen in a basement for 50 years.
Why watch: Footage buried for fifty years. Won the Oscar.
Cast
Stevie Wonder as Self
Lin-Manuel Miranda as Self - Artist
Chris Rock as Self - Artist
Tony Lawrence as Self - Harlem Cultural Festival Producer & Host (archive footage)
Nina Simone as Self (archive footage)
B.B. King as Self (archive footage)
Abbey Lincoln as Self (archive footage)
Mavis Staples as Self - Singer (archive footage) (voice)
Mahalia Jackson as Self (archive footage)
David Ruffin as Self
Sly Stone as Self - Performer (archive footage)
Hugh Masekela as Self (archive footage)
John V. Lindsay as Self (archive footage)
Ray Barretto as Self - Performer (archive footage)
Herbie Mann as Self (archive footage)
Crew
Questlove — Director
Robert Fyvolent — Producer
David Dinerstein — Producer
Joseph Patel — Producer
Rocky Collins — Executive Producer
Gregory A. Thomson — Co-Producer
Inuka Bacote — Co-Producer
Jen Isaacson — Executive Producer
Jon Kamen — Executive Producer
Cora Atkinson — Co-Producer
Ruth Johnston — Executive Producer
Laurene Powell Jobs — Executive Producer
Davis Guggenheim — Executive Producer
Jannat Gargi — Executive Producer
Beth Hubbard — Executive Producer
Nicole Stott — Executive Producer
Dave Sirulnick — Executive Producer
Jody Allen — Executive Producer
Jonathan Silberberg — Executive Producer
Jeffrey Lurie — Executive Producer
Shawn Peters — Director of Photography
Joshua L. Pearson — Editor
Lauren Nikrooz — Art Direction
Mark Thompson — Art Direction
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