Save the Children (1973)

This seminal concert documentary captures the historic Chicago concert presented as part of as part of Jesse Jackson’s 1972 Operation PUSH Black Exposition. Save the Children features soulful concert footage of Cannonball Adderley, Jerry Butler, Sammy Davis Jr., Roberta Flack, Marvin Gaye, Isaac Hayes, The Jackson 5, Gladys Knight, Ramsey Lewis, Curtis Mayfield, Wilson Pickett, Nancy Wilson, Bill Withers and more. “Save the Children is unabashedly emotional and entertaining,” says The New York Times. “(It’s) a bulging package of jazz, blues, rock, gospel, ballads and honest proseletyzing…”