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Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood
📅 3/16/2022⏱️ 53 minutes★7.5/10
Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood
📅 3/16/2022⏱️ 53 minutes★7.5/10
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
★7.5/10(4 votes)
Status
Released
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