Heat Wave

08/13/1990

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1hr 40min

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History

,Drama

,TV Movie

The Watts uprising of '65 turned the police into killers... a community into ashes... and a young black journalist into a hero.

STORY

A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.

CAST & CREW

Cast

Cicely Tyson
Blair Underwood
Sally Kirkland
James Earl Jones
Margaret Avery

Directors

Kevin Hooks
Lyn Matsuda Norton
Barbara Amato

INFORMATION

Production Companies

Production Countries

LANGUAGES

English

Cast

Cicely Tyson

Ruthana Richardson

Blair Underwood

Bob Richardson

Sally Kirkland

Mrs. Canfield

James Earl Jones

Junius Johnson

Margaret Avery

Roxie Turpin

David Strathairn

Bill Thomas

Glenn Plummer

J.T. Turpin

Vondie Curtis-Hall

Clifford Turpin

Paris Vaughan

Lada

Harold Pruett

John Riggs

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