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Shaft

Shaft (1971) - Where to Watch

Audience Score
64

Looking for where to watch 'Shaft' on any device? Here are platforms and services with rental, purchase, and subscription options, so you can start watching sooner. 'Shaft' is currently available to rent, purchase, or stream via subscription on Brown Sugar Amazon Channel, Apple TV Store, Spectrum On Demand, Prime Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube in the US.

Here are a few key highlights to round things out about the Shaft Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer action flick. Shaft starring Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John has a R rating, a runtime of about 1 hr 40 min. The release date of the movie is July 2nd, 1971. The movie received a user score of 64/100 on TMDb, which represents input from reviews from 400 verified users.

Let’s set the scene for you... Here's the plot: "Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter."

'Shaft' Release Dates

Watch in Movie Theaters on July 2nd, 1971
Watch on DVD or Blu-ray starting June 6th, 2000 - Buy Shaft DVD

Shaft Movies

The Shaft trilogy is composed of action-crime films centered on an African-American police detective named John Shaft, who over the course of the films have altercations with a variety of crime. The films are characterized by their blaxploitation characteristics.