Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood
movie
View on VideBits →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.
Cast & crew
Mike Sargent · Melvin Van Peebles · Sandra Nkake · Reginald Hudlin · Catherine Bernstein · Max Van Peebles · Bill Duke · Sandra Rush · Martine Delumeau · Donna Dubrow · Mario Van Peebles · Marguerite Van Peebles