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

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

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

Nina Simone
Self (archive footage)
B.B. King
Self (archive footage)
Mahalia Jackson
Self (archive footage)
John V. Lindsay
Self (archive footage)
Questlove
Self (uncredited)
Walter Cronkite
Self (archive footage)
Malcolm X
Self (archive footage)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Self (archive footage)
Robert F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Richard Nixon
Self (archive footage)
John F. Kennedy
Self (archive footage)
Jesse Jackson
Self (archive footage)
Moms Mabley
Self (archive footage)
Max Roach
Self (archive footage)
Fidel Castro
Self (archive footage)
Redd Foxx
Self (uncredited)