Grainy documentation of the three-day music festival, African and African-American, organized to accompany “the Rumble in the Jungle” in Zaire in 1974. The fight was postponed, but the sideshow went on: James Brown, Bill Withers, B.B. King, the Spinners, Miriam Makeba, et al. Muhammad Ali still gets his share of screen time (“Stokely Carmichael! Don’t you burn up nothin’ over here!”), and the festival and attendant festivities have plenty of cultural interest if no special significance. Directed by Jeffrey Levy-Hinte. (2009) — Duncan Shepherd
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