We Want the Funk! (2025)

6.3/10 • 90 min • Documentary Music

Overview

Stanley Nelson's syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, from early roots to 1970s urban funk and beyond.

Cast

Nona Hendryx

Questlove

George Clinton

Fred Wesley

Marcus Miller

David Byrne

Todd Boyd

Self

Kirk Franklin

Carlos Alomar

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