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1990 History Drama TV Movie 1h 40m

Heat Wave

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

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

6.2 TMDB RATING
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Principal 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

Adam Arkin

Art Berman

Robert Hooks

Reverend Brooks

Michael Greene

Mr. Canfield

Charlie Korsmo

Jason (age 12)

T.E. Russell

Dominique Freeman

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