Production
Larry Shaw
Born — Died
1938-02-16 — 2003-04-11
Place of birth
Memphis - Tennessee - USA
Known for
Production
Credits
3 titles
Larry Shaw was the creative and advertising Director of Stax Records, playing a key role in its marketing and promotion during the label's golden age. He is known for co-directing the 1972 Wattstax concert film, a documentary capturing the historic concert celebrating Black culture.
Known for
6.1Student nurses join some doctors to work in a medical station a few hours flying-time from the Mexican town of Catamaco. One of their planes goes down due to an engine malfunction and crashes in the rain forest. This is the story of the attempts to save the lives of the passengers (both nurses and doctors).
Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7
1993
6.8A documentary film about the Afro-American Woodstock concert held in Los Angeles seven years after the Watts riots. Director Mel Stuart mixes footage from the concert with footage of the living conditions in the current-day Watts neighborhood.
Wattstax
1973
3.7A Union soldier travels through the South right after the Civil War ends, and runs up against angry ex-slaves, murderous former Confederates and desperate women.
Bloody Trail
1972
Film credits
Behind the camera
6.1Student nurses join some doctors to work in a medical station a few hours flying-time from the Mexican town of Catamaco. One of their planes goes down due to an engine malfunction and crashes in the rain forest. This is the story of the attempts to save the lives of the passengers (both nurses and doctors).
Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7
1993
6.8A documentary film about the Afro-American Woodstock concert held in Los Angeles seven years after the Watts riots. Director Mel Stuart mixes footage from the concert with footage of the living conditions in the current-day Watts neighborhood.
Wattstax
1973