Heat Wave

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

8/13/19901h 40min6.8/10(5 TMDB votes)

HistoryDramaTV Movie

Directed by Kevin Hooks

Plot

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

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