Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Reviews

• "The lack of awareness of this event is another tragic example of black history being ignored. Only this time the record survived, and now we all get to share in it."
  - The Guardian
• "The genuinely revelatory combined effect of the interviews, concert footage, and pure elation aside, there remains an undercurrent of bristling frustration bubbling beneath the film’s surface. 52 years? That’s how long “Summer of Soul” sat unseen, hidden from the public? If work this important can be squirreled away from view for this long, and if we let our imaginations run wild, then who knows how many other stories lie buried in anonymity, or where."
  - The Playlist
• "It’s a music documentary like no other, because while it’s a joyful, cataclysmic, and soulfully seductive concert movie, what it’s really about is a key turning point in Black life in America."
  - Variety