Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)

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

Release Date: July 02, 2021

Runtime: 117 minutes

Budget: $0.0

Revenue: $3,696,069.0

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.

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TMDB Popularity: 2.97

Cast

Chris Rock

Self - Artist

Tony Lawrence

Self - Harlem Cultural Festival Producer & Host (archive footage)

Nina Simone

Self (archive footage)

B.B. King

Self (archive footage)

Abbey Lincoln

Self (archive footage)

Mavis Staples

Self - Singer (archive footage) (voice)

Mahalia Jackson

Self (archive footage)

Sly Stone

Self - Performer (archive footage)

Hugh Masekela

Self (archive footage)

John V. Lindsay

Self (archive footage)

Ray Barretto

Self - Performer (archive footage)

Questlove

Self (uncredited)

Luis A. Miranda Jr.

Self - Civic Leader

Walter Cronkite

Self - Host, CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (archive footage)

Malcolm X

Self - Activist (archive footage)

Martin Luther King Jr.

Self - Activist (archive footage)

Robert F. Kennedy

Self - Presidential Candidate (archive footage)

Richard Nixon

Self - 37th President of the United States (archive footage)

John F. Kennedy

Self - 35th President of the United States (archive footage)

Moms Mabley

Self (archive footage)

Max Roach

Self (archive footage)

Fidel Castro

Self (archive footage)

Redd Foxx

Self - Comedian & Actor (archive footage)

Gladys Knight

Self - Musician

Dinah Shore

Self (archive footage)

Buzz Aldrin

Self (archive sound)

Al Sharpton

Self - Minister & Activist

Marilyn McCoo

Self - The 5th Dimension

Sheila E.

Self - Musician

Berry Gordy

Self - Founder of Motown Records (archive footage)

Neil Armstrong

Self (archive sound)

Willie Tyler

Self - Ventriloquist (archive footage)

Billy Davis Jr.

Self - The 5th Dimension

John Chancellor

Self (archive footage)

Dewey 'Pigmeat' Markham

Self (archive footage)

Roebuck 'Pops' Staples

Self - Performer (archive footage)

Harry Reasoner

Self (archive footage)

Selema Masekela

Self - Son of Hugh Masekela

Crew

Jeffrey Lurie

Executive Producer

Questlove

Director

Davis Guggenheim

Executive Producer

Paul Massey

Additional Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Jon Kamen

Executive Producer

Dave Sirulnick

Executive Producer

Jannat Gargi

Executive Producer

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