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Heat Wave

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

August 13, 19901h 40m
HistoryDramaTV Movie

68%

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

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