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Heat Wave
The Watts uprising of '65 turned the police into killers... a community into ashes... and a young black journalist into a hero.
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Not available to stream in US
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A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
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Cast & crew
Directed by Kevin Hooks
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
