Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood

Name: Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 2022-03-16
Duration: 53 min
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Sandra Nkake, Melvin Van Peebles, Mario Van Peebles, Reginald Hudlin, Bill Duke

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Documentary History

In 1971, director Melvin Van Peebles turned the figure of the black hero in US cinema upside down with Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: the story of the making of a seminal movie that initiated the Blaxploitation movement, a short-lived but highly influential sub-genre in the years that followed.

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