movie
2021 · United States
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 117 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
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.
- jazz
- empowerment
- blues
- civil rights
- rhythm and blues (r&b)
- music festival
- music history
- concert film
- harlem
- new york city
- 1960s
The bill
Stevie Wonder
Self
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Self - Artist
Chris Rock
Self - Artist
Tony Lawrence
Self - Harlem Cultural Festival Producer & Host (archive foo
- 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)
- David Ruffin — Self
- Sly Stone — Self - Performer (archive footage)
- Hugh Masekela — Self (archive footage)
- John V. Lindsay — Self (archive footage)
- Ray Barretto — Self - Performer (archive footage)
- Herbie Mann — Self (archive footage)
- Directed
- Questlove
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 230 ratings
- Studio
- Mass Distraction Media, RadicalMedia, Vulcan Productions, Concordia Studio
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
