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
Bebe Drake
Winnie (as Bebe Drake-Massey)
Mark Rolston
Officer Zekanis
Pepper Sweeney
Spook Hunter
Blair Underwood
Bob Richardson
Sally Kirkland
Mrs. Canfield
James Earl Jones
Junius Johnson
David Strathairn
Bill Thomas
Glenn Plummer
J.T. Turpin
T.E. Russell
Dominique Freeman
Christopher M. Brown
Reggie Freeman
Paris Vaughan
Lada
Harold Pruett
John Riggs
Charlie Korsmo
Jason (age 12)
Michael Greene
Mr. Canfield
Cicely Tyson
Ruthana Richardson
Margaret Avery
Roxie Turpin
Vondie Curtis-Hall
Clifford Turpin
Marilyn Coleman
Cora
Adam Arkin
Art Berman
Robert Hooks
Reverend Brooks
Emily Yancy
Guidance Counselor