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A trio of female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way.
Soul Power
The greatest music festival that you have never seen.
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.
Top Billed Cast
James Brown Self (archive footage)
Bill Withers Self (archive footage)
B.B. King Self (archive footage)
Muhammad Ali Self (archive footage)
Don King Self (archive footage)
Lola Love Self
Franco Luombo Self
Miriam Makeba Self (archive footage)
Celia Cruz Self (archive footage)
Hugh Masekela Self (archive footage)
Johnny Pacheco Self (archive footage)
George Plimpton Self (archive footage)
Sweet Charles Sherrill Self (archive footage)
Debbie Sledge Self (archive footage)
Joni Sledge Self (archive footage)
Kim Sledge Self (archive footage)
Kathy Sledge Self (archive footage)
Tomo Toro Self (archive footage)
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