Soul Power
June 10, 2009
93 minutes
6.4
DocumentaryMusic

Soul Power

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.

Trailer
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))
Manu Dibango
(Self)
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))
Stewart Levine
(Self)