Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
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A Questlove Jawn.
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.
2021-07-02
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Cast
Director
Questlove
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)
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)
Questlove as Self (uncredited)
Luis A. Miranda Jr. as Self - Civic Leader
Walter Cronkite as Self - Host, CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (archive footage)
Malcolm X as Self - Activist (archive footage)
Martin Luther King Jr. as Self - Activist (archive footage)
Robert F. Kennedy as Self - Presidential Candidate (archive footage)
Richard Nixon as Self - 37th President of the United States (archive footage)
John F. Kennedy as Self - 35th President of the United States (archive footage)
Jesse Jackson as Self
Moms Mabley as Self (archive footage)
Max Roach as Self (archive footage)
Fidel Castro as Self (archive footage)
Redd Foxx as Self - Comedian & Actor (archive footage)
Gladys Knight as Self - Musician
Dinah Shore as Self (archive footage)
Buzz Aldrin as Self (archive sound)
Al Sharpton as Self - Minister & Activist
Marilyn McCoo as Self - The 5th Dimension
Sheila E. as Self - Musician
Berry Gordy as Self - Founder of Motown Records (archive footage)
Neil Armstrong as Self (archive sound)
Willie Tyler as Self - Ventriloquist (archive footage)
Billy Davis Jr. as Self - The 5th Dimension
John Chancellor as Self (archive footage)
Dewey 'Pigmeat' Markham as Self (archive footage)
Roebuck 'Pops' Staples as Self - Performer (archive footage)
Harry Reasoner as Self (archive footage)
Selema Masekela as Self - Son of Hugh Masekela
Kwame Ture as Self - Activist (archive footage)
Bones Howe as Self - Music Producer (archive footage)
Greg Errico as Self - Drummer, Sly & the Family Stone
Roy Ayers as Self