Travel back to the 1960s with The Fox Theatre! This month we’re revisiting some of our favourite musical movies from the grooviest decade.

The third film in our series won “Best Documentary Feature” at this year’s Oscars, and with good reason!

In his directing debut, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson presents a documentary that’s part music film and part historical record, created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture and fashion.

Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just 100 miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park. The footage was largely forgotten–until now.