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

★ 7.5/10 · 4 votes 2022 0h 53m Released

DocumentaryHistory

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.

Cast

Sandra Nkake Self - Narrator (voice) Melvin Van Peebles Self M Max Van Peebles Self M Marguerite Van Peebles Self M Mike Sargent Self Mario Van Peebles Self