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

2022

53 min

8.0

Ends at

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.

Budget

$0

Genre

Documentary, History

Director

Martine Delumeau

Country

France

Cast & Crew

Sandra Nkake

Melvin Van Peebles

Max Van Peebles

Marguerite Van Peebles

Mike Sargent

Mario Van Peebles

Reginald Hudlin

Sandra Rush

Donna Dubrow

Bill Duke

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

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.

  • Sandra Nkake

  • Melvin Van Peebles

  • Max Van Peebles

  • Marguerite Van Peebles

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