
1990 · Kevin Hooks · 100 min
The Watts uprising of '65 turned the police into killers... a community into ashes... and a young black journalist into a hero.
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
Cicely TysonRuthana Richardson
Blair UnderwoodBob Richardson
Sally KirklandMrs. Canfield
James Earl JonesJunius Johnson
Margaret AveryRoxie Turpin
David StrathairnBill Thomas
Glenn PlummerJ.T. Turpin
Vondie Curtis-HallClifford Turpin
Paris VaughanLada
Harold PruettJohn Riggs
Adam ArkinArt Berman
Robert HooksReverend Brooks
Michael GreeneMr. Canfield
Charlie KorsmoJason (age 12)
T.E. RussellDominique Freeman