Heat Wave
The Watts uprising of '65 turned the police into killers... a community into ashes... and a young black journalist into a hero.
6.2/ 10
1990
1h 40m
HistoryDramaTV Movie
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
Top 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
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