Soul Power (2009)

6.4/10 93 min Documentary Music

Overview

Soul Power is a 2008 documentary film about the Zaire 74 music festival in Kinshasa which accompanied the Rumble in the Jungle heavyweight boxing championship match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in October 1974. The film was made from archival footage; other footage shot at the time focusing on the fight was edited to form the film When We Were Kings.

Cast

James Brown

Self (archive footage)

Bill Withers

Self (archive footage)

B.B. King

Self (archive footage)

Muhammad Ali

Self (archive footage)

Don King

Self (archive footage)

Manu Dibango

Self

Miriam Makeba

Self (archive footage)

Celia Cruz

Self (archive footage)

Hugh Masekela

Self (archive footage)

George Plimpton

Self (archive footage)

Debbie Sledge

Self (archive footage)

Joni Sledge

Self (archive footage)

Kim Sledge

Self (archive footage)

Kathy Sledge

Self (archive footage)

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