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"The Watts uprising of '65 turned the police into killers... a community into ashes... and a young black journalist into a hero."
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Released: Aug 13, 1990
Runtime: 1h 40m
Rating: ⭐ 6.2 / 10
History
Drama
TV Movie
Overview
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
Top Billed Cast
Cicely Tyson
Ruthana Richardson
Blair Underwood
Bob Richardson
Sally Kirkland
Mrs. Canfield
James Earl Jones
Junius Johnson
Margaret Avery
Roxie Turpin
David Strathairn
Bill Thomas
Glenn Plummer
J.T. Turpin
Vondie Curtis-Hall
Clifford Turpin
Paris Vaughan
Lada
Harold Pruett
John Riggs
