Summer of Soul

Name: Summer of Soul
Released: 2021
Cast: Stevie Wonder, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Chris Rock, Tony Lawrence, Nina Simone

Questlove20211 h 57 min

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Questlove pieced together footage of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival that sat unseen for fifty years. It won the Oscar for best documentary.

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.