- Country: USA
- Genres: Documentary
- Release: 2018-04-22
- Director: Melissa Haizlip , Samuel D. Pollard
- Writers: Melissa Haizlip
- Language: English
- Stars: Blair Underwood
- Runtime: 104 min
- Awards: 19 wins & 12 nominations
- AKA: Mr. Soul! (United Kingdom) , Mr. Soul! , Mr. Soul! (United States of America)
- Plot: Before Oprah, before Arsenio, there was Mr. SOUL. Ellis Haizlip ensures that the Revolution would be televised with "SOUL!," America's first "Black Tonight Show." From 1968 to 1973, the public-television variety show SOUL!, guided by enigmatic producer and host Ellis Haizlip, offered an unfiltered, uncompromising celebration of Black literature, poetry, music, and politics--voices that had few other options for national exposure, and, as a result, found the program an improbable place to call home. The series was among the first to provide expanded images of African Americans on television, shifting the gaze from inner-city poverty and violence to the vibrancy of the Black Arts Movement. With participants' recollections and illuminating archival clips, Mr. SOUL captures a critical moment in culture whose impact continues to resonate, and an unsung hero whose voice we need now more than ever, to restore the SOUL of a nation.
- IMDB:tt2355880
Mr. SOUL! Cast · · · ALL
Melissa Haizlip
Director
Samuel D. Pollard
Director
Ellis Haizlip
Self (archival footage)
Sidney Poitier
Self (archival footage)
Blair Underwood
Voice of Ellis Haizlip
Harry Belafonte
Self
Patti LaBelle
Self (archival footage)
Stevie Wonder
Self (archival footage)
Gladys Knight
Self (archival footage)
Ahmir-Khalib Thompson
Self
Novella Nelson
Self
Maya Angelou
Self (archival footage)
Bill Withers
Self (archival footage)
Stan Lathan
Self
James Baldwin
Self (archival footage)
Carmen De Lavallade
Self
Al Green
Self (archival footage)
Kathleen Cleaver
Self
Felipe Luciano
Self