Soul Power

The Netflix Challenge continues full-steam ahead tonight with the 2008 documentary Soul Power.

James Brown, sporting a killer mustache and wearing a navy blue and black jumpsuit with "GFOS" stitched on the front, leads a group of the hottest American R&B acts of 1974 (Bill Withers, B.B. King, The Spinners and Celia Cruz) to Zaire for a joint music festival with Africa's biggest performers to coincide with Ali and Frazier's "Rumble in the Jungle."

The film is edited together from footage left over from the Academy Award-winning documentary, When We Were Kings, which focused more on the Ali-Frazier fight.

There's some great stuff from the plane ride over featuring Celia Cruz and her band playing mid-flight. Azucar!

A highlight from Bill Withers:



And The Godfather:



The best part, though, was right at the very end. After the credits roll, James tells the camera, "I hope this can be put at the tail end of this thing. When you walk out this movie, or you walk away from your television, if there's one thing you walk out with in your mind when get up and walk out in the street, you say to yourself, 'Damn right, I'm somebody'."

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