The Night James Brown Saved Boston

April 5, 1968, the day after the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. As rioting erupts in America's inner cities, James Brown flies into Boston for a scheduled gig. Fearing an influx of angry blacks into the city center, the newly elected mayor plans to cancel the concert but is convinced by a young black councilman to not only let the show go on but to broadcast it live on TV in hopes of keeping people off the streets. This VH1-produced documentary reconstructs the seething tension of the time, analyzes Brown's ambivalent relationship with the civil rights movement and shows the Godfather of Soul at his dazzling best, both as a showman and as a leader.