Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)
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.
Country: United States of America
Directors: Questlove
Casts: Stevie Wonder as Self, Lin-Manuel Miranda as Self, Chris Rock as Self, Tony Lawrence as Self, Nina Simone as Self (archive footage), B. B. King as Self (archive footage), Abbey Lincoln as Self, Mavis Staples as Self, Mahalia Jackson as Self, David Ruffin as Self, Sly Stone as Self, Hugh Masekela as Self, John V. Lindsay as Self (archive footage), Ray Barretto as Self, Herbie Mann as Self, Mongo Santamaría as Self, Questlove as Self (uncredited), Luis Miranda as Self, Walter Cronkite as Self (archive footage), Malcolm X as Self (archive footage), Martin Luther King Jr. as Self (archive footage), Robert F. Kennedy as Self (archive footage), Richard Nixon as Self (archive footage), John F. Kennedy as Self (archive footage), Jesse Jackson as Self (archive footage), Moms Mabley as Self (archive footage), Max Roach as Self (archive footage), Fidel Castro as Self (archive footage)
