Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood
Naissance d'un héros noir au cinéma : Sweet Sweetback
Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood On Soap2Day. 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.
- Genre: Documentary, History
- Country: France
- Director: Catherine Bernstein
- Cast: Sandra Nkake, Melvin Van Peebles, Max Van Peebles, Marguerite Van Peebles, Mike Sargent, Mario Van Peebles, Reginald Hudlin, Sandra Rush, Donna Dubrow, Bill Duke, Philip Hart, Mandela Van Peebles,