Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood
6.2
2022
0 hr 53 min
History
, Documentary
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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- Cast：
- Sandra Nkake , Melvin Van Peebles , Mario Van Peebles , Reginald Hudlin , Bill Duke , Mandela Van Peebles
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