Name: Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Genre: Music, Documentary, History
Released: 2021-07-02

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

2021 117m Music Documentary History USA

Directed by

Questlove

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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.

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Stevie Wonder

Self
Lin-Manuel Miranda

Self - Artist
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)
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)
Mongo Santamaría

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)
Jesse Jackson

Self
Moms Mabley

Self (archive footage)
Max Roach

Self (archive footage)
Fidel Castro

Self (archive footage)
Redd Foxx

Self - Comedian & Actor (archive footage)
Dorinda Drake

Self - Festival Attendee
Barbara Bland-Acosta

Self - Festival Attendee
Darryl Lewis

Self - Festival Attendee
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)
George Kirby

Self (archive footage)
Willie Tyler

Self - Ventriloquist (archive footage)
Billy Davis Jr.

Self - The 5th Dimension
John Chancellor

Self (archive footage)
Dewey 'Pigmeat' Markham

Self (archive footage)
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

Self - Performer (archive footage)
Roebuck 'Pops' Staples

Self - Performer (archive footage)
Harry Reasoner

Self (archive footage)
Selema Masekela

Self - Son of Hugh Masekela
Edwin Hawkins

Self - Performer (archive footage)
Kwame Ture

Self - Activist (archive footage)
Bones Howe

Self - Music Producer (archive footage)
Greg Errico

Self - Drummer, Sly & the Family Stone
Roy Ayers

Self
Musa Jackson

Self - Festival Attendee
Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Self - Former Reporter, The New York Times
Cholly Atkins

Self - Choreographer for Motown (archive footage)
+ 47 more