We Want the Funk! (2025)

5.8/10 • 90 min • Documentary Music

Overview

Stanley Nelson's syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, from early roots to 1970s urban funk and beyond.

Cast

Nona Hendryx

Self

Questlove

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George Clinton

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Fred Wesley

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Marcus Miller

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David Byrne

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Todd Boyd

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Kirk Franklin

Self

Carlos Alomar

Self

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