Wattstax, a 1973 documentary film by Mel Stuart, depicts the 1972 Wattstax music festival and the community of Watts in Los Angeles, California. Held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on August 20, 1972, the concert was organized by Memphis’s Stax Records in tribute to the seventh anniversary of the Watts riots. Wattstax was seen by some as “the Afro-American answer to Woodstock”. To enable as many members of the community to attend as possible, tickets were sold for only $1.00 each.
