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
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)
Crew
Questlove
Director
Joshua L. Pearson
Editor
Shawn Peters
Director of Photography
Jody Allen
Executive Producer
Rocky Collins
Executive Producer
Jannat Gargi
Executive Producer
Davis Guggenheim
Executive Producer
Beth Hubbard
Executive Producer
Jen Isaacson
Executive Producer
Ruth Johnston
Executive Producer
Jon Kamen
Executive Producer
Laurene Powell Jobs
Executive Producer
Jonathan Silberberg
Executive Producer
Dave Sirulnick
Executive Producer
Nicole Stott
Executive Producer
Jeffrey Lurie
Executive Producer
David Dinerstein
Producer
Robert Fyvolent
Producer
Joseph Patel
Producer
Ashley Bembry-Kaintuck
Associate Producer
Andrea Dramer
Associate Producer
Inuka Bacote
Co-Producer
Cora Atkinson
Co-Producer
Gregory A. Thomson
Co-Producer
Sunny Bourgeois
Hair Supervisor
Nicola David
Makeup & Hair
Robyn Fisher
Makeup & Hair
Viola Nicholson
Makeup & Hair
Jiho Kim
Assistant Sound Editor
Paul Hsu
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Paul Massey
Additional Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Alan Chow
Sound Mixer
Aisha Hallgren
Sound Mixer
Dennis Hamlin
Sound Mixer
Rich Mach
Sound Mixer
Mike Stahr
Sound Mixer
Emily Strong
Sound Mixer
Lauren Nikrooz
Art Direction
Mark Thompson
Art Direction
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