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

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.

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The cast

Sandra Nkake Self - Narrator (voice)

Melvin Van Peebles Self

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Max Van Peebles Self

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Marguerite Van Peebles Self

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Mike Sargent Self

Mario Van Peebles Self

Reginald Hudlin Self

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Sandra Rush Self

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Donna Dubrow Self

Bill Duke Self

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Philip Hart Self

Mandela Van Peebles Self

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