Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood (2022)

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 : Mar 16, 2022

Runtime : 53m

Genre : Documentary  History  

Companies : 13 Prods, ARTE, Pop'Films

Countries : France

Keywords : cinema on cinema, blaxploitation cinema, cinema history, usa cinema