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

7.621

117 minutes

7/2/2021

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.

Cast List

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 (archive footage)
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 A. Miranda Jr.
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)
Redd Foxx
as Self (uncredited)