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

8.0 53 mins Documentary   History   2022
13 Prods   ARTE   Pop'Films  
Director(s): Catherine Bernstein Martine Delumeau

Release Date: 16 Wed, Mar 2022

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.

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

Sandra Nkake

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Max Van Peebles

as Self

Mike Sargent

as Self

Reginald Hudlin

as Self

Sandra Rush

as Self

Donna Dubrow

as Self

Bill Duke

as Self

Philip Hart

as Self

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