Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood
Naissance d'un héros noir au cinéma : Sweet Sweetback
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.
- Director: Martine Delumeau
- Genre: Documentary, History
- Actors: Bill Duke, Donna Dubrow, Marguerite Van Peebles, Mario Van Peebles, Max Van Peebles, Melvin Van Peebles, Mike Sargent, Reginald Hudlin, Sandra Nkake, Sandra Rush
