Heat Wave
The Watts uprising of '65 turned the police into killers... a community into ashes... and a young black journalist into a hero.
History Drama TV Movie
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
Director Kevin Hooks
Cast
James Earl Jones
Junius Johnson
Margaret Avery
Roxie Turpin
Paris Vaughan
Lada
Mark Rolston
Officer Zekanis
Sally Kirkland
Mrs. Canfield
David Strathairn
Bill Thomas
Glenn Plummer
J.T. Turpin
Vondie Curtis-Hall
Clifford Turpin
Adam Arkin
Art Berman
Robert Hooks
Reverend Brooks
Bebe Drake
Winnie (as Bebe Drake-Massey)
Pepper Sweeney
Spook Hunter
Michael Greene
Mr. Canfield
T.E. Russell
Dominique Freeman
Christopher M. Brown
Reggie Freeman
Emily Yancy
Guidance Counselor
Marilyn Coleman
Cora
Charlie Korsmo
Jason (age 12)
Cicely Tyson
Ruthana Richardson
Harold Pruett
John Riggs
Blair Underwood
Bob Richardson