Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood
8.0
2022
0h 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.
Director
Catherine Bernstein
Top Cast
Sandra Nkake
Self - Narrator (voice)
Melvin Van Peebles
Self
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Max Van Peebles
Self
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Marguerite Van Peebles
Self
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Mike Sargent
Self
Mario Van Peebles
Self
Reginald Hudlin
Self
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Sandra Rush
Self
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Donna Dubrow
Self
Bill Duke
Self
