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

16 Mar 2022
  • France
53 mins
8
3 votes
  • Documentary
  • History
articleOverview personCast
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.
  • 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
  • Reginald Hudlin

    as Self
  • Sandra Rush

    as Self
  • Donna Dubrow

    as Self
  • Bill Duke

    as Self
  • Philip Hart

    as Self
  • Mandela Van Peebles

    as Self

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