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Heat Wave (1990)

6.2 | Aug 13, 1990 (US) | History, Drama, TV Movie | 01:40

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.

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Cicely Tyson
Ruthana Richardson
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Blair Underwood
Bob Richardson
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Sally Kirkland
Mrs. Canfield
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James Earl Jones
Junius Johnson
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Margaret Avery
Roxie Turpin
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David Strathairn
Bill Thomas
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Glenn Plummer
J.T. Turpin
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Vondie Curtis-Hall
Clifford Turpin
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Harold Pruett
John Riggs