Heat Wave

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

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

History Drama

Cicely Tyson

(Ruthana Richardson)

Blair Underwood

(Bob Richardson)

Sally Kirkland

(Mrs. Canfield)

James Earl Jones

(Junius Johnson)

Margaret Avery

(Roxie Turpin)

David Strathairn

(Bill Thomas)

Glenn Plummer

(J.T. Turpin)

Vondie Curtis-Hall

(Clifford Turpin)

Paris Vaughan

(Lada)

Harold Pruett

(John Riggs)

Adam Arkin

(Art Berman)

Robert Hooks

(Reverend Brooks)

Michael Greene

(Mr. Canfield)

Charlie Korsmo

(Jason (age 12))

T.E. Russell

(Dominique Freeman)

Stephanie Covington

(Florence Blake)

Janice McElroy

(Rachel Freeman)

Christopher M. Brown

(Reggie Freeman)

Emily Yancy

(Guidance Counselor)

Roger Grato III

(Jason (age 6))

Marilyn Coleman

(Cora)

Bebe Drake

(Winnie (as Bebe Drake-Massey))

Mark Rolston

(Officer Zekanis)

Randy Kirby

(Lt. Keyes)

Pepper Sweeney

(Spook Hunter)