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IMDb: 7.8 / 10.

Release year: 2018.

Story: Before Oprah, before Arsenio, there was Mr. SOUL. Ellis Haizlip ensures that the Revolution would be televised with "SOUL!," Americas 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. —Melissa Haizlip

The documentary explores the history of the series and the expression of Haizlips expansive vision. We see archival footage from the series, including interviews with Amiri Baraka, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Muhammad Ali, and James Baldwin, among others, as well as performances from Patti LaBelle, Ashford and Simpson, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, and Earth, Wind and Fire. We hear performances from The Last Poets and see the footage of Nikki Giovanni interviewing James Baldwin that recently went viral on social media, reflecting the series key role in bringing the poetry, literature, and the Black Arts Movement to the attention of the public, even today. Haizlips slyly-provocative interviewing style, and his ability to get his guests to open up, takes viewers into an intimate Black sphere that was ordinarily kept hidden from public view. SOUL was a signature cultural artifact of the Black Power era, and we hear many of the militant voices that defined the era, thrilling some listeners while outraging others. Mr. SOUL captures that critical moment in our nations cultural rise, whose impact continues to resonate across generations and cultures. With the current ongoing Black Lives Matter movement, and with our nation on the eve of a great racial reckoning, Ellis Haizlips vision, his show, and the artists to whom he gave a platform, have become even more important now than ever.

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