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

    Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood
    2022

    Synopsis

    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 NkakeSelf - Narrator (voice)
    • Melvin Van PeeblesSelf
    • Max Van PeeblesSelf
    • Marguerite Van PeeblesSelf
    • Mike SargentSelf
    • Mario Van PeeblesSelf
    • Reginald HudlinSelf
    • Sandra RushSelf
    • Donna DubrowSelf
    • Bill DukeSelf

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