Film
Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood 2022
53 min TMDB 7.5 Documentary History
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 as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Melvin Van Peebles as Self
- Max Van Peebles as Self
- Marguerite Van Peebles as Self
- Mike Sargent as Self
- Mario Van Peebles as Self
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