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

Documentary, History 0h 53m 2022

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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Director
Catherine Bernstein, Martine Delumeau
Cast
Bill Duke, Donna Dubrow, Mandela Van Peebles, Marguerite Van Peebles, Mario Van Peebles

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