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Soul Power

The greatest music festival that you have never seen.

2008 · 1h 33m · PG-13 Documentary, Music
Directed by Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte

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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.

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84%
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Fresh

Soul Power turns out to be an unusually resonant time capsule, one that weaves together theatrics, musicianship, cosmopolitanism and sharp political critique in a vibrant look-back that's at once celebratory and wistful.

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post
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It's impossible not to be moved.

Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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It packs the emotional and historical power of a heady 'family gathering' celebration of African and, to use the term then in fashion, Afro-American pride.

Dan DeLuca, Philadelphia Inquirer
Fresh

Soul Power is the indispensable companion film to Leon Gast's thrilling 1996 documentary When We Were Kings.

Tom Keogh, Seattle Times
Fresh

Watching the Godfather of Soul on the big outdoor stage, you think back to his appearance in The T.A.M.I. Show a decade earlier. And then you think: I feel good.

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

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