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

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2022 · 53 min · Documentary · History · TMDB 7.5/10

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.

Directed by Catherine Bernstein

Cast

• Sandra Nkake — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Melvin Van Peebles — Self
• Max Van Peebles — Self
• Marguerite Van Peebles — Self
• Mike Sargent — Self