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

📅 3/16/2022⏱️ 53 minutes8.0/10

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 years that followed.

Release Date

March 16, 2022

Runtime

53 minutes

Rating

8.0/10(3 votes)

Status

Released

Genres

DocumentaryHistory

Cast

Content Source

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