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

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

Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood
202253 min
DocumentaryHistory

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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 y...

Top Cast

Sandra Nkake

Sandra Nkake

Self - Narrator (voice)

Melvin Van Peebles

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

Mario Van Peebles

Self

Reginald Hudlin

Reginald Hudlin

Self

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Sandra Rush

Self

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