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Soul Power is a 2008 documentary film about the Zaire 74 music festival in Kinshasa which accompanied the Rumble in the Jungle heavyweight boxing championship match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in October 1974. The film was made from archival footage; other footage shot at the time focusing on the fight was edited to form the film When We Were Kings.
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É 1974. Muhammad Ali tem 32 anos e o seu passado é considerado por muitos, nobre. George Foreman é dez anos mais novo e é o campeão mundial dos pesos pesados. O promotor Don King quer fazer o seu próprio nome e oferece aos lutadores cinco milhões de dólares para cada um, para lutarem um contra o outro, e quando aceitam, King só tem que vir com o dinheiro. Ele encontra um patrocinador, Mobutu Sese Suko, o ditador do Zaire, e "Rumble in the Jungle" é definido, incluindo um festival musical que apresenta alguns dos melhores artistas negros da América, como James Brown e B.B. King.
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The story of Dorothy and her husband T.C. He is a discharged Vietnam veteran who thought he would return home to a "hero's welcome." Instead he is falsely arrested and imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. Her life revolves around the welfare office and a community facing poverty and unemployment. As a result of the film's events, both the main characters become radicalized and Dorothy eventually turns to violence.
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Eddie Warmack (Nathaniel Taylor), saxofonista de jazz que deixa a prisão após cumprir sua pena pelo assassinato de um gângster branco. Enquanto tenta convencer seus colegas músicos a escapar da máfia da indústria fonográfica, que lucra com a exploração do suor e do talento dos artistas negros, Eddie parte em uma busca – ao lado de sua companheira Maya (Pamela B. Jones) – por seu avô, o lendário mestre jazzista Poppa Harris (Clarence Muse).
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A documentary film about the Afro-American Woodstock concert held in Los Angeles seven years after the Watts riots. Director Mel Stuart mixes footage from the concert with footage of the living conditions in the current day Watts neighborhood. The film won the Golden Globe for Best Documentary Film.
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The film opens in 1945 with a young boy playing in his Chicago neighborhood, and then follows the adult Jita-Hadi as a returning Marine with heightened political consciousness.
