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

Name: Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood
Director: Catherine Bernstein
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 2022-03-16
Duration: 3180 s
Rating: 8
Cast: Sandra Nkake, Melvin Van Peebles, Max Van Peebles

Directed by Catherine Bernstein, Martine Delumeau

2022 53m[Documentary](/on-demand/category/documentary), [History](/on-demand/category/history)

8.0

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.