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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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6.8
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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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A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.

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100 min

Released Aug 1990
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