HistoryDrama

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

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

Credits

Cicely TysonRuthana Richardson

Blair UnderwoodBob Richardson

Sally KirklandMrs. Canfield

James Earl JonesJunius Johnson

Margaret AveryRoxie Turpin