

Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood
2022 · Movie · 53m
DocumentaryHistory
Overview
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.
Ratings
TMDB
8/10
Key crew
- Catherine BernsteinDirector
- Martine DelumeauDirector
Cast
- Sandra NkakeSelf - Narrator (voice)
- Melvin Van PeeblesSelf
- Max Van PeeblesSelf
- Marguerite Van PeeblesSelf
- Mike SargentSelf
- Mario Van PeeblesSelf
- Reginald HudlinSelf
- Sandra RushSelf
- Donna DubrowSelf
- Bill DukeSelf
- Philip HartSelf
- Mandela Van PeeblesSelf
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Themes
cinema on cinemablaxploitation cinemacinema historyusa cinema





















