Documentary films about music festivals

1970 documentary film

1970 documentary film

1959 film by Bert Stern, Aram Avakian

2021 film directed by Questlove

2019 film directed by Chris Smith

1992 film by Wayne Isham

1968 rockumentary directed by D. A. Pennebaker

Wattstax was a benefit concert organized by Stax Records to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the 1965 riots in the African-American community of Watts, Los Angeles. The concert took place at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on August 20, 1972. The concert's performers included all of Stax's prominent artists at the time. The genres of the songs performed included soul, gospel, R&B, blues, funk, and jazz. Months after the festival, Stax released a double LP of the concert's highlights, Wattstax: The Living Word. The concert was filmed by David L. Wolper's film crew and was made into the

2003 documentary film directed by Bob Smeaton

1971 film by D. A. Pennebaker

2019 film directed by Jenner Furst and Julia Willoughby Nason